BACKGROUND Although substantial evidence suggests that stressful life events predispose to the onset of episodes of depression and anxiety, the essential features of these events that are depressogenic and anxiogenic remain uncertain. METHODS High contextual threat stressful life events, assessed in 98 592 person-months from 7322 male and female adult twins ascertained from a population-based...

The 2012 Albert Lasker Special Achievement Award in Medical Science will be shared by Donald Brown and Tom Maniatis for their scientific work leading to the purification and study of single genes by physical and molecular biological methodologies. Brown and Maniatis are also recognized for their extraordinary commitment and generosity in promoting the careers of young scientists. The impact of ...

this study is conducted to measure the actual efficiency comparison of life insurance company between bangladesh and malaysia. total 15 life insurance companies’ were selected for the study where 10 conventional life insurance companies’ from bangladesh and 5 takaful lifeinsurance companies’ from malaysia. authors tried toindicate the problems and way to get exact solutions by using data envelo...

This article outlines the description, from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Vedic Psychology, of experience of the Ved — the perception, within the simplest form of human awareness, of the self-interacting dynamics of the unified field, the field of pure consciousness or cosmic psyche. This realization is described by Maharishi as developing through increasingly refined experience of the field of pure ...

Sean Penn's Into the Wild is a magnificent, epic film that tells an intriguing story of the wilderness. The film, based on Jon Krakauer's book of the same title, is about a young man who leaves what he perceives to be false and materialistic life behind to enter the wild in search of the pure and authentic. In an interview about the film, Sean Penn said that, while human inauthenticity and corr...