CITATION: Excessive self grooming in mice has been used as a model for obsessive compulsive disorder. The fact that the prairie voles do this as consoling behaviour does suggest grooming is comforting. But it also seems that in some strains of mice, but not all, barbering is thought to be a sign of dominance and/or aggression. How can you differentiate between a potentially comforting behaviour...

The article analyzes the peculiarities of Russia’s ideology during reign Peter I. author raises question Peter's revolutionary nature and examines relationship between “old” “new” in field ideological prerequisites for turn Russia towards Europe. There is also considered role Tsar I selection, interpretation propaganda borrowings from Western European socio-political thought. Particular attenti...

Stigma is a widely used concept in social science research and an extensive literature claims that stigmatisation contributes to numerous negative health outcomes. However, few studies compare groups that vary in the extent to which they are stigmatised and even fewer studies examine stigma's independent and mediating effects. This article addresses these gaps in a comparative study of perceive...

Arsenic exposure has been associated with sensory, motor, memory, and learning alterations in humans and alterations in locomotor activity, behavioral tasks, and neurotransmitters systems in rodents. In this study, CD1 mice were exposed to 0.5 or 5.0 mg As/L of drinking water for 6 months. Locomotor activity, aggression, interspecific behavior and physical appearance, monoamines levels, and exp...

background: hairdressers are occupationally exposed to a number of agents in their workplace that result in respiratory symptoms and changes in pulmonary function. objective: to evaluate associations between occupational exposure and respiratory function and reported symptoms in a group of hairdressers compared to a control group. methods: a questionnaire on respiratory symptoms and workplace c...

Abnormal phospholipid metabolism has been implicated in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia, and it was reported that phospholipase C (PLC) beta1 is reduced in specific brain areas of patients with schizophrenia. However, the causal relationship of the PLCbeta1 gene with behavioral symptoms of schizophrenia remains unclear. To address this issue, we have examined the mutant mice lacking PLCbeta1 ...

BACKGROUND: The barbers’ work is associated to many infectious diseases which lead major cause of morbidity and mortality in human’s population globally. This study aimed determine practices health hazards with their profession Fiji. 
 MATERIALS & METHODS: A cross sectional quantitative was conducted collect data from 50 observational sessions among barbers Suva...

HCV is transmitted principally through parenteral routes. The parenteral modes of transmission include blood transfusions, blood product infusions and organ transplantation. Vertical transmission of HCV has also been described. Though reports on the sexual transmission have been controversial, a fact that clearly emerges is that transmission of HCV through this route occurs at a very low effici...