CONTEXT Childhood mood disorders lack sufficient evidence-based treatments. While psychosocial treatments are recommended for both childhood depression and bipolar disorder, empirical support is scarce. OBJECTIVE To determine whether adjunctive multifamily psychoeducational psychotherapy would improve outcome for children aged 8 to 12 years with depression or bipolar disorder. DESIGN One hu...

Since the discovery of weak localization twenty years ago [1] much attention has been given to its scaling properties in low dimensions in infinite homogenious media. There is also weak localization correction to transort properties of a mesoscopic conductor that is shorter than decoherence length. Such a conductor is neither scalable nor homogeneous, so that one generally expects the WLC to de...

Hyperspectral images are one of the most important data source for land cover analysis. These images encode information about the earth surface expressed in terms of spectral bands, allowing us to precisely classify and identify materials of interest. An approach that has been widely used is the combination of various classification methods in order to produce a more accurate thematic map based...

White-light continuum (WLC) generation in bulk media finds numerous applications ultrafast optics and spectroscopy. Due to the complexity of underlying spatiotemporal dynamics, WLC optimization typically follows empirical procedures. Deep reinforcement learning (RL) is a branch machine dealing with control automated systems using deep neural networks. In this Letter, we demonstrate capability R...

Native lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are capable of growing during winemaking, thereby strongly affecting wine quality. The species of LAB present in musts, wines during malolactic fermentation (MLF), and barrels/filters were investigated in wineries from the emerging wine region of Queretaro, México using multiplex PCR and culture. The resistance to wine-like conditions (WLC): ethanol (10, 12, an...

Force spectroscopies have emerged as a powerful and unprecedented tool to study and manipulate biomolecules directly at a molecular level. Usually, protein and DNA behavior under force is described within the framework of the worm-like chain (WLC) model for polymer elasticity. Although it has been surprisingly successful for the interpretation of experimental data, especially at high forces, th...

We develop an analytical method for studying the properties of a noninteracting wormlike chain (WLC) in confined geometries. The mean-field-like theory replaces the rigid constraints of confinement with average constraints, thus allowing us to develop a tractable method for treating a WLC wrapped on the surface of a sphere, and fully encapsulated within it. The efficacy of the theory is establi...

Firefighters are exposed to many traumatic events. The psychological costs of this exposure increase the risk of Post-Traumatic Stress disorder (PTSD), depression and anxiety. This study examined the effectiveness of Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) as a short-term treatment for reducing PTSD symptoms among Saudi firefighters. A randomized waiting-list control study was conducted with 34 trauma...

Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: Novel optical imaging technologies have shown promising results for the diagnosis, management and follow up of bladder cancer. They might take the place of the white light cystoscopy which is the gold standard for many decades. Bladder cancer is diagnosed and followed-up with cys-toscopy as the " gold standard ". For many decade...