OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine the relationships among extraversion, social support, posttraumatic stress disorder and posttraumatic growth among adolescent survivors of the Wenchuan earthquake. METHODS Six hundred thirty-eight participants were selected from the survivors of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. Participants completed four main questionnaires, including the Extravers...

– Taking into account stress fluctuations due to thermal noise, we study thermally activated irreversible crack growth in disordered media. The influence of material disorder on sub-critical growth of a single crack in two-dimensional brittle elastic material is described through the introduction of a rupture threshold distribution. We derive analytical predictions for crack growth velocity and...

We have observed very low disorder in high quality quantum well tubes (QWT) in GaAs-Al(0.4)Ga(0.6)As core-multishell nanowires. Room-temperature photoluminescence spectra were measured from 150 single nanowires enabling a full statistical analysis of both intra- and inter-nanowire disorder. By modelling individual nanowire spectra, we assigned a quantum well tube thickness, a core disorder para...

We study spinodal phase separation in unstable thin liquid films on chemically disordered substrates via simulations of the thin-film equation. The disorder is characterized by immobile patches of varying size and Hamaker constant. The effect of disorder is pronounced in the early stages (amplification of fluctuations), remains during the intermediate stages and vanishes in the late stages (dom...

background :co-morbid psychiatric disorders affect prognosis, psychosocial adjustment and post-surgery satisfaction in patients with gender identity disorder. in this paper, we assessed the frequency of personality disorders in iranian gid patients.   methods : seventy- three patients requesting sex reassignment surgery (srs) were recruited for this cross- sectional study. of the participants, ...

background :5httlpr polymorphism (5- hydroxytryptamine transporter linked promoter region polymorphism) is the most widely studied genetic variant in psychiatry. the present study is a modest effort at ascertaining the role of 5ht transporter linked promoter region polymorphism (5httlpr) in anxiety and depressive disorders in kashmir (india).the aim of this study was to examine 5-hydroxy trypta...

objective in this article, a motor skill disorder called developmental coordination disorder (dcd), that is usually first diagnosed during childhood, is explained and discussed. in the year 1987, dcd was formally recognized as a distinct disorder in children by the american psychiatric association  (apa). dcd is a generalized term for the children who have some degrees of impairment in the deve...

noonan syndrome is an autosomal dominant disorder that is typically evident at birth. in many affected individuals, this syn­drome is associated with cardiac defects and a distinctive facial appearance. the high frequency of cardiac disorder, oph­thalmic, growth and orthopedic signs, associated with noonan syndrome emphasizes the need for early diagnosis. this re­port aimed to present a 19 year...