When clinicians label a child as having a functional disorder, there is often a pejorative connotation that the symptoms are psychological, imagined, or faked. These symptoms range from chronic abdominal pain to recurrent headaches to fatigue. We say the complaints are functional because we are unable to demonstrate any structural or biochemical abnormality causing them. The degree to which we ...

BACKGROUND Negative stereotypes presented in the media may contribute to the stigma associated with mental illness. People's attitudes towards the mentally ill are initially influenced and subsequently maintained in part by the frequent media presentation of negative stereotypes of mental illness. This could result in social rejection of individuals with mental illnesses. AIM To explore how f...

Résumé Abstract Cet article a pour objectif d’analyser dans quelle mesure le nouveau champ multidisciplinaire récemment créé, Public Health Genomics (PHG), fait preuve de rhétorique. La rhétorique sera examinée, au sens propre, comme art de bien parler, mais aussi, au sens actuel quelque peu péjoratif du terme, comme l’opposition entre paroles et actions, l’information et la désinformation et l...

BACKGROUND Standard sperm characteristics are poor predictors of the outcome of IVF treatments. On the contrary, sperm genome quality has been emphasized for several years as playing a major role in early embryogenesis, thus in the success of IVF attempt. METHODS Sperm DNA fragmentation from a selected group of 104 couples undergoing assisted reproductive techniques (ART) (IVF: n = 50; and IC...

One hundred ten litigants who were suing for emotional damages were assessed by the author for medical-legal reasons. Most of the plaintiffs were involved in motor vehicle accidents and suffered from "whiplash" injuries. Semi-structured interviews were used to reach criteria based on DSM-III-R diagnoses. Requests for consultation, on average, came 25 months after the patient's accident. Approxi...

Limitation of therapeutic effort (LTE) is a medical term that is not free of polemic. Thus, some hold that limitation is an expression that could be considered pejorative and believe it would be more appropriate to speak of "adjustment", in order to avoid "negative" considerations concerning patient care. Because it is not a case of "ceasing to act" but of adopting a proactive attitude that inc...

The type V intermediate filament lamins are the principal components of the nuclear matrix, including the nuclear lamina. Lamins are divided into A-type and B-type, which are encoded by three genes, LMNA, LMNB1, and LMNB2. The alternative splicing of LMNA produces two major A-type lamins, lamin A and lamin C. Previous studies have suggested that lamins are involved in cancer development and pro...

Citizen is a live crime and safety tracking app in New York City that uses AI to monitor police scanners for incidences are relevant “public safety,” whilst also utilizing user‐recorded footage, as users near crime, fire, or accident encouraged “go live” film unfolding events. Users comment additional information post expressive emojis unravel. In sharing across digital network, functions both ...

This paper aims to analyse evidence, based on one of the largest and most representative samples households previously flooded or living with flood risk date, social patterns in a range resilience traits relating preparedness prior (e.g., property adaptations, contents insurance, etc.) mitigations enacted during immediately following receiving warning, evacuation into temporary accommodation, e...

Abstract The author points out that the moral condemnation of “nationalism” is common in contemporary Anglo-Saxon literature does not hold up once we subject it to historical and, by extension, sociolinguistic criticism. This term, originally nebulous and confusing, has become meaningless as a result forgetting designation relationship an individual (or social group) entity nation, empirically ...