with chalcogens by ion implantation and pulsed laser melting Brion P. Bob, Atsushi Kohno, Supakit Charnvanichborikarn, Jeffrey M. Warrender, Ikurou Umezu, Malek Tabbal, James S. Williams, and Michael J. Aziz Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA Department of Applied Physics, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka 814-0180, Japan Research School of Physics...

C 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 U N C O R R E Many clinicians in sleep medicine, psychiatry, and psychology remain unaware of the suffering and distress caused by chronic nightmares. This lack of awareness extends to the therapeutic tools that effectively reduce or eliminate the problem. Many nonpharmacologic techniques have been proposed...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate three public Arabic speech corpora, namely the West Point (WP), Saudi Accented Arabic Voice Bank (SAAVB) and the BBN Technologies/American University at Beirut (BBN/AUB) corpus by referring the TIMIT English speech corpus as benchmark. Weaknesses, strengths, and discrepancies of these Arabic corpora regarding their design and content are covered in this pape...

OBJECTIVE This observational, longitudinal study of veterans with recent combat exposure describes the prevalence, severity and associations of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), insomnia, and nightmares over time. METHODS Eighty recent combat veterans recruited from Veterans Health Administration primary care settings met inclusion criteria including hazardous alcohol use and at least sub...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To identify risk factors for experiencing nightmares among the Finnish general adult population. The study aimed to both test whether previously reported correlates of frequent nightmares could be reproduced in a large population sample and to explore previously unreported associations. DESIGN Two independent cross-sectional population surveys of the National FINRISK Study. ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Environmental factors such as serious trauma or abuse and related stress can lead to nightmares or night terrors. Being bullied can be very distressing for children, and victims display long-term social, psychological, and health consequences. Unknown is whether being bullied by peers may increase the risk for experiencing parasomnias such as nightmares, night terrors,...

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of treatment for co-morbid sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) on patients with nightmares and post-traumatic stress. METHODS Twenty-three chronic nightmare sufferers (15 with post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD) who also suffered co-morbid SDB (obstructive sleep apnea, OSA, n=16; upper airway resistance syndrome, UARS, n=7) completed a telephone interview, on ave...