BACKGROUND The Hamilton Depression Rating Scale retains its primacy in research. There have been recent important critiques. It is clear that instructions provided by its author are widely overlooked. METHOD A survey of the present use of the HDRS was conducted by inspection of five major journals publishing studies in the field of psychiatry. Note was especially made of whether a recognised ...

In this issue, our articles explore the often-fragile interaction of scholars, local activists, and practitioners who are blending ideas philosophies at home abroad to find a more just equitable food system that can help save planet. Or, put their collaborative efforts viscerally, ways for human beings themselves from themselves. An example weaving Western Indigenous knowledge is on cover issue...

Human schistosomiasis is one of the most common Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs); it is an intravascular parasite caused by the trematode blood fluke (Schistosoma). Most human infections are caused by S. haematobium, S. mansoni, and S. japonicum. An estimated total of 237 people are infected worldwide, and 732 million people are at risk of being infected. In the Middle East and North Africa (...

AIM The objective of this study was to analyze the changes in depressive and extrapyramidal symptomatology during glycine augmentation of antipsychotic treatment in patients with schizophrenia. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-nine schizophrenic patients (ICD-10) with predominant negative symptoms in stable mental state participated in a 10-week open-label prospective study. Patients received sta...

A pharmacokinetic study was done on 10 depressed patients (DSM-III-R 296.3). The patients were treated with Sintamil (R) (nitroxazepine HCl) with titrated dose from 75 mg to 225 mg for 6 weeks. Plasma levels of nitroxazepine (Sintamil (R)) and its metabolites desmethyl (D), N-oxide (N-O) and carboxylic acid (c) were estimated. Anti-depressant efficacy was judged by reduction in Hamilton Rating ...

Global crop mapping and monitoring requires high-resolution spatio-temporal information. In this regard, dual polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensors provide high temporal spatial resolutions with large swath width. Generally, phenological development studies utilized SAR backscatter intensity-based descriptors. However, these descriptors are derived either from the covariance matri...

You have accessJournal of UrologyTrauma/Reconstruction/Diversion: Urethral Reconstruction (including Stricture, Diverticulum) II (PD22)1 Sep 2021PD22-11 SCAR-MODULATING EFFECT OF INTRAURETHRAL DEXPANTHENOL ON URETHRAL HEALING POST URETHROPLASTY: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY IN RATS Mohamed Hassaan, Ahmed Elkashef, Nashwa Barakat, Amira Awadalla, Abdelwahab Hashem, Soltan, Fathy El-Seddawy, and Mahmoud...

By RUSSEL M. BARAKAT AND ROGER P. EKINS F OR A PERIOD of about a decade, microbiological assay with Euglena gracilis1 and other microorganisms2 has been accepted as a standard method of vitamin B,2 determination in serum and other body fluids. However, this method is time-consuming, entails many sources of error and is not fully reliable. Other methods of assay3 require relatively large quantit...

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It has been argued that if increased entrepreneurial activity is the outcome objective, then self-efficacy provides a legitimate and robust construct that can be used to evaluate the impact of entrepreneurial education (Barakat, McIellan, & Winfield, 2010). This is because self-efficacy influences the motivation and ability to engage in specific activities (Bandura, 1977) and is a strong, neces...