While perfectionism is widely considered to influence risk for eating disorders, results of longitudinal studies are mixed. The goal of the current study was to investigate a more complex model of how baseline perfectionism (both high personal standards and self-critical evaluative concerns) might influence change in risk status for eating disorders in young adolescent girls, through its influe...

Almost 30 years have passed since the initial publication of Ivan Illich’s Limits to Medicine. Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health. A medieval historian who has been described as one of the world’s great thinkers, Illich introduced his iconoclastic work with the indictment, “the medical establishment has become a major threat to health.” The book makes a passing reference to radiology ...

Higher Criticism is a recently developed statistic for non-Gaussian detection, proposed in Donoho & Jin 2004, where it has been shown to be effective at resolving a very subtle testing problem: whether n normal means are all zero versus the alternative that a small fraction is nonzero. Higher Criticism is also useful in the detection of a non-Gaussian convolution component of cosmic strings in ...

The aim of this paper is an analysis of Karl Marx’s account of social criticism. The paper opens with a distinction between two models of social criticism, Platonic and Socratic, present in the contemporary political philosophy. The main argument is that despite the contradictory character of the two models of criticism, they are both present in Marx’s account of criticism. Through the concept ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether substantive criticism in electronic letters to the editor, defined as a problem that could invalidate the research or reduce its reliability, is adequately addressed by the authors. DESIGN Cohort study. SETTING BMJ between October 2005 and September 2007. Inclusion criteria Research papers generating substantive criticism in the rapid responses section on bm...

| Onsager's second kind of \reciprocal relations" state that (~ H) = T (? ~ H) where is the 3 3 conductance matrix, ~ H is an externally applied magnetic eld, and T means matrix transpose. This is only supposed to hold for \linear" materials for which the current density ~ J is related to the electric eld ~ E by h ~ Ji = ~ E. This is just one instance of a class of mathematically equivalent but...

OObjective: The present study aimed to predict the severity of Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms (OCS) based on Traumatic Childhood Experiences through the mediating role of Self-criticism. Methods: The general design of the present study is the descriptive correlation of structural equations. The statistical population of this study was adults, aged 18 to 50 -who were living in Mashhad in 2021 - ...

improvements, and a change in the character ofspecific diseases put forward to account for the fall in mortality during the course ofthe nineteenth century or even to assess the relative contribution of each to the mortality level of a particular city. On the latter issue, Robert Woods' own study of the sanitary condition ofBirmingham marks a significant advance in that he is able to provide a ...