BACKGROUND/AIM Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) accounts for 25% of all malignancies in children. ALL treatment has standard protocols, and treatment abandonment is a main cause of treatment failure. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the relationship between socioeconomic status and rate as well as cause of abandoned treatment in children with ALL in the southeast of Iran. MATERIALS AND...

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a highly prevalent and disabling condition linked to early stressors including traumatic abuse and abandonment. While much work has addressed traumatic events in childhood, little is known about the biological sequelae of BPD including how this disorder may be differentiated from other stress-related disorders such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)...

The primary objective of this study is to reveal macro-level knowledge aid the optimization, evaluation, and strategic planning technological innovation abandonment. This research uses an exploratory data analysis (EDA) approach extract directional associative patterns (macro-level knowledge) assess abandonment optimization. Deterministic stochastic simulations are employed impact three factors...

This study is directed toward understanding the process of feeding stimulation ("refeeding signal") that has been suggested to operate below a body mass threshold or critical metabolic status in spontaneously fasting birds. Behavior and egg temperature (T(egg)) were continuously monitored by video monitoring and biotelemetry, respectively, in fasting-incubating king penguins kept in a pen to pr...

BACKGROUND Borderline personality disorder (BPD) and somatoform disorders (SoD) involve significant problems in relationships and emotion regulation, but the similarities and differences between these disorders in these areas is not well understood. METHOD In 472 psychotherapy inpatients BPD and/or SoD diagnoses were confirmed or ruled out using clinical interviews and standardized measures. ...

Baruch for helpful comments on earlier drafts. A previous version of this paper was titled " Loss reversals and earnings-based valuation. " All errors are our own. Abstract We hypothesize that when confronted with a loss, investors price earnings conditional on the likelihood of the firm's return to profitability. We argue such pricing is consistent with the abandonment option hypothesis as des...

172 C R E D IT : M A L C O L M L IN T O N ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA—In the late 1980s, when Russia had detected only a smattering of HIV cases, 270 children became infected in several hospitals through the reuse of contaminated needles. “The country was in shock,” says Evgeny Voronin, who then ran an infectious-disease hospital in Ust-Izhora, on the outskirts of St. Petersburg. The Ministry of Hea...