Little is known about posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among pathological gamblers (PGs), even though the two disorders share several clinical characteristics. We examined the relationship between pathological gambling and PTSD on measures of gambling disorder severity, experience of specific traumas, psychiatric symptoms, impulsivity, and dissociation. A total of 149 treatment-seeking PGs ...

1. introduction increasing of extreme events such as flood, hailstorm, drought, thermal waves, dust storm and other dangerous climatological events, especially in local scale, could be the result of the climatic change over the globe. the characteristics and impacts of severe weather are function of place and time of occurrence. severe weathers are usually accompanied by strong winds and heavy ...

Dear Friends, M of us have taken up academics as our profession and are keenly observing the developments in our field from close quarters over several years. Some of us are holding key administrative positions in the hierarchy of the Dental colleges while the others are involved in the departmental working and developments. Each one of us will agree that indeed the Dental profession as a whole...

He *be effort and cost and also to evaluate each > ^ea as the children made use of it. t PreParin? the design I had to keep many 0rs in mind. For instance, the hostel accom, ated boys and girls aged from 5-16 years, some o^om were hyperactive and destructive whilst ers Were withdrawn and unsociable. Some had a very short attention span but others became obsessed with a play situation for long p...

Meteorological volumetric data are used to detect thunderstorms that are the cause of most of the summer severe weathers. There are systems that may convert the volumetric data into a set of derived products. Based on these derived features, this work compares three classifiers to determine which approach will best classify a storm cell data set coming from Environment Canada. The criterion for...

For the past 12 years the Canadian Department of National Defence and Raytheon Canada Limited have collaborated on a cost-shared programme to develop an Integrated Maritime Surveillance (IMS) system based on HF Surface Wave Radar (HFSWR). The primary objective behind the programme was to demonstrate the capability of HFSWR to continuously detect and track surface targets (ships and icebergs) as...

The present study assessed potential gender differences between the two prevailing PTSD models - the emotional numbing (King, Leskin, King, & Weathers, 1998) and dysphoria (Simms, Watson, & Doebbelling, 2002) models - in order to establish whether one model is superior with regard to its cross-gender generalizability. The sample included 188 female and 690 male trauma-exposed United States Vete...

The stability and function of a normal healthy visual system can be influenced by circumstances such as great depth or high altitude. As refractive surgery changes the properties of the cornea and the lens, concerns about refractive or intraocular lens (IOL) procedures in humans exposed to extreme situations have been raised. Early in the 1990s, it was reported that incisional refractive surger...