Violence is a major management issue for forensic mental health systems. Violence can be approached as a medical syndrome and deconstructed into psychotic, impulsive, and predatory subtypes, which are hypothetically mapped onto corresponding malfunctioning brain circuits. Rational management of violence balances treatment with security, while targeting each subtype of violence with approaches u...

Aggregation is a defensive strategy employed by many prey species in response to predatory threat. Our group has characterized defensive aggregation (huddling) in Rattus norvegicus in response to a ball of cat fur. In this situation some rats huddle less, and approach the threatening cue more than others (active vs. passive responders). The present study explored whether active responding is a ...

We should be wary of low-quality journals and predatory OA publishing. But we also know which sources’ judgement to trust. Is the new website Predatory Reports a trustworthy source information?

The article examines the significance of Nikolai Strakhov and journal Zarya for Fyodor Dostoevsky’s works at end 1860s, in particular, poetics story Eternal Husband. Strakhov’s well-known review Tolstoy’s novel War Peace range his writings on problems psychology is analyzed article. context allow us to investigate specifics mechanism creating image an “eternal husband” writer’s (the problem “pr...

Two groups of seven cats estimated preoperatively as good mice-killers were subjected to the damage of either the lateral hypothalamus (LH) or the ventro-posterior hypothalamus (VPH). The LH damage produced global impairment of the predatory behavior, such as interest in, catching, killing, or consuming the mouse, whereas VPH damage left intact most components of the predatory act, except for m...

The removal, or absence, of predatory species could be a contributing proximate factor to the rise of primate cathemerality. But predators themselves can also be cathemeral, so cathemerality could well be an evolutionary stable strategy. From a comparative perspective, it appears that the effect of predatory species cannot provide a unitary explanation for cathemerality. Varying distributions a...

Multidrug-resistant (MDR) Gram-negative bacteria have emerged as a serious threat to human and animal health. Bdellovibrio spp. and Micavibrio spp. are Gram-negative bacteria that prey on other Gram-negative bacteria. In this study, the ability of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus and Micavibrio aeruginosavorus to prey on MDR Gram-negative clinical strains was examined. Although the potential use of p...

A major reason for security professionals not seeming able to protect fully against the rapidly changing threat environment and sophisticated attacks is that they often don’t have available the necessary application security data for detecting and responding to such increasingly stealthy attacks. Furthermore, easily generated application security data are generally not reported timely or accura...

A Quick Guide on grasshopper mice which, contrary to the great majority of mouse species, are obligate carnivores.