Dental surgery in patients with hemorrhagic diathesis represents a great clinical challenge regarding the bleeding and complicated infections. There are various methods and materials for haemostasis of these patients. One of them is ABS (Ankaferd Blood Stopper), which has been approved for the clinical management of external post-surgical and dental surgery bleedings in Turkey. ABS could be eff...

Although diathesis alternations have been used as features for manual verb classification, and there is recent work on incorporating such features in computational models of human language acquisition, work on large scale verb classification has yet to examine the potential for using diathesis alternations as input features to the clustering process. This paper proposes a method for approximati...

In The Discovery of the Orgone, Volume II: The Cancer Biopathy, Reich discussed the variability of biopathic expression and laid the theoretical groundwork for the functional differentiation of the biopathies. His conclusions were based partly on his experiences in character analytic technique and orgone therapy. In other words, the disease entities and syndromes which he included under the hea...

ABNORMAL bleeding has been recognized as a presenting symptom in multiple myeloma (Wintrobe, 1961) though less frequently encountered than pain, tumours, deformity, pathological fractures and neuralgic or neurological symptoms. Bernard, Inceman, Zara and Christol (1952) comment that haemorrhage is found more frequently as a secondary or terminal feature than as a presenting symptom, but concede...

Recent descriptions of discontinuation syndromes following treatment with antidepressants and antipsychotics, in some cases long lasting, challenge both public and scientific models of addiction and drug dependence. Antipsychotic and antidepressant drug dependencies point to a need to identify predisposing constitutional and personality factors in the patient, pharmacological risk factors in th...

The goal of the current study was to compare diathesis-stress and transactional models of cognitive vulnerability to depression in samples of Canadian (n = 118) and Chinese (n = 405) adolescents. We utilized a six-month multi-wave, longitudinal design in order to examine whether (a) perceived control moderated the association between the occurrence of dependent interpersonal stressors and subse...

are discussed. Nevertheless the book is a very interesting one and draws attention to an aspect of disease which is far too much neglected, and by no one more than by the Specialist. The necessity of treating patients, not diseases, is too often lost sight of. As the author well puts it?"Too much attention is being paid to the germ, and far too little to the soil on which it falls," and he poin...