The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) generated the global digital elevation/surface model (DEM/DSM) and orthorectified image (ORI) using the archived data of the Panchromatic Remote-sensing Instrument for Stereo Mapping (PRISM) onboard the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS, nicknamed “Daichi”), which was operated from 2006 to 2011. PRISM consisted of three panchromatic radiometer...

A Gram-stain-negative, aerobic bacterium, designated strain YIM 77409T, was isolated from the Niujie hot spring in the Eryuan county of Dali, Yunnan province, south-west China. Cells of the strain were rod-shaped and colonies were yellow and circular. The strain grew at pH 6.0-8.0 (optimum, pH 7.0) and 50-70°C (optimum, 60-65°C). The predominant menaquinone was MK-8 and the DNA G+C content was ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Youth Guide alcohol frequency screening thresholds when applied to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5) diagnostic criteria, and to describe alcohol use patterns and alcohol use disorder (AUD) characteristics in rural youth from primary care settings. STUDY DESIGN Adolescents (n =...

CARTOSAT-1 satellite was launched in May 2005; the optical sensor is configured with two pushbroom cameras, namely Aft and Fore, tilted in along track direction by -5° and +26°, providing stereoscopic imagery in the same pass with a ground resolution of 2.5 m. Within the ISRO-ISPRS Cartosat Scientific Assessment Program (C-SAP), investigations were carried out on a stereopair belonging to the t...

Purpose To evaluate the safety and efficacy of degradable starch microspheres (DSM) as embolic agents in transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) in the treatment of secondary liver metastases. Methods This was a national, multicenter observational study. Primary endpoints were safety and treatment response according to Modified Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (mRECIST) criteria. ...

This study sought to extend previous work on the five-factor dimensional model (FFM) of personality disorder (PD) by developing more comprehensive FFM descriptions of prototypic cases. Specifically, the authors asked experts in each of the 10 DSM-IV PDs to rate the prototypic case by using all 30 facets of the FFM. Aggregating across raters of the given disorder generated a prototype for each d...

UNLABELLED The aim of this study was to analyze the usefulness of the International Personality Disorder Examination Screening Questionnaire (IPDE-SQ) for identifying DSM-IV and ICD-10 Borderline and Impulsive personality disorders (PD) in Spanish adolescents. METHOD The DSM-IV and ICD-10 IPDE-SQ screeners were used and compared with the diagnoses obtained with the IPDE semistructured intervi...

AIMS To evaluate the homogeneity of the elements of the Substance Dependence Syndrome (SDS) as applied to benzodiazepines (BZDs) by Rasch modelling. MEASUREMENTS The Rasch scaling model was applied to data obtained by administering the SCAN (Schedules for Clinical Assessments in Neuropsychiatry) substance dependence sections. Subsequently, Rasch-homogeneous sets of DSM-III-R and ICD-10 BZD de...

were too vague to merit a further distinction between the two entities than that defined by the DSM-III-R (psychosis designated by a qualifying decimal point under the severity code) [17] . Therefore PD remained classified under severe depression in both the DSM-IV and the ICD-10. During the DSM-IV/ICD-10 era a number of studies reporting significant differences between PD and nonPD have been p...

The diagnostic category of adjustment disorder (AD) made its first appearance in DSM-III in 1968, replacing the previous “transient situational disturbance” of DSM-II, and shortly after was included in ICD-9. It has persisted into the current versions of both DSM-IV and ICD-10. The inclusion of AD recognizes that people can often develop symptoms or exhibit behaviors in response to stressful ev...