The ayurvedic proprietary antacid preparations available in the Indian market were analysed for their antacid activity and compared with allopathic antacid preparations. This study urges the need for standardization of antacid products with in vitro  parameters.

BACKGROUND Anti-smoking public service announcements (PSAs) often include smoking-related cues; however, visual drug cues can trigger acute cravings that may impede cognitive processing of the anti-smoking message. This experiment evaluated effects of smoking cues in PSAs on smoking urges, immediate smoking behavior, and persuasion measures in daily smokers. METHODS Three-hundred and eighteen...

A PURPOSELESS EDUCATION?—Wilbur H. "Ping" Ferry, a social critic and gadfly from the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, offers a comment about "the war against mental poverty," while Professor William Arrowsmith looks on, in last Friday's campus symposium on "The University: What Purpose?" Other panelists included Dean Louis H. Pollak of the Yale University Law School, and Rice Pr...

In addition, the WHO, Food and Agriculture Organization, and World Organization for Animal Health have joined their hands and pledged to reduce the magnitude of NZDs.[1] Subsequently, more emphasis was given to overcome the global impact of NZDs (viz. rabies, cysticercosis, echinococcosis, and leishmaniasis) at the World Health Assembly meet in 2013.[2,3] In fact, a comprehensive policy framewo...

Evidence that nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) serves a maladaptive emotion regulation function in borderline personality disorder (BPD) has drawn attention to processes that may increase risk for NSSI by exacerbating negative emotion, such as rumination. However, more adaptive forms of emotion processing, including differentiating broad emotional experiences into nuanced emotion categories, migh...

The social problems caused by watching of obscene videos which is very easy to get from communication networks and infra are increasing seriously. Above all, act of watching of obscene videos, especially the stimulated sexual urges and desire by watching obscene videos happen to the health problem of the individual as well as harming of the health of society. In that time, the researches about ...

This short position paper urges researchers to assume that existing research on creativity evaluation should form the basis for establishing computable metrics: what already exists, even if it is not obviously computable, should be examined carefully.