BACKGROUND TO THE DEBATE Schizophrenia affects an estimated 25 million people in low- and middle-income countries, with an average lifetime risk of about 1%. The illness is associated with excess mortality from a variety of causes. A 2001 Institute of Medicine report on mental illness in developing countries found that in 1990, over two-thirds of people with schizophrenia in these countries wer...

This paper uses theatre to frame reflexive discussions on the use of participatory video making for science engagement. The ‘JuxtaLearn’ research project is presented as a case-study that focuses on performance concepts such as audience, purpose, improvisation or final production as a lens for supporting technology-enabled creative exploration. Three different approaches were taken to creative ...

The recently constructed Dehnen-Binney set of mass models for the Galaxy is used to show that the decaying neutrino theory for the ionisation of the interstellar medium (Sciama 1990a, 1993) requires the neutrino halo of the Galaxy to be as flattened as is observationally permitted (axial ratio q = 0.2 or shape E8). The argument involves an evaluation of the contribution of red-shifted decay pho...

A minimal renormalizable SUSY SO(10) model with B-L symmetry broken by 126 Higgs field has recently been shown to predict all neutrino mixings and the ratio ∆m⊙/∆m 2 A in agreement with observations. Unlike models where B-L is broken by 16 Higgs, this model guarantees automatic R-parity conservation and hence a stable dark matter without any additional symmetry assumptions. In this paper, we di...

OBJECTIVES To examine the demographic correlates of lifetime and 12-month prevalence of major depressive disorder (MDD) among older African Americans, Black Caribbeans, and non-Hispanic Whites. METHODS Data are from adults aged 55 years and older (n = 1439) recruited to the National Survey of American Life (NSAL; 2001-2003). The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Version IV World Mental Health...

This paper proposes an Energy Aware Routing Protocol (E-AODV) based on AODV which incorporates local routing of intermediate nodes to increase the lifetime of the network .NS2 (Version 2.34) [1] simulator is used for the simulation of new protocol and AODV protocol for the performance parameters packet delivery ratio and delay. This implementation demonstrates that how small changes in the prin...

he linear exponential distribution is a very well-known distribution for modeling lifetime data in reliability and medical studies.We introduce in this paper a new four-parameter generalized version of the transmuted generalized linear exponential distribution.We provide a comprehensive account of the mathematical properties of the new distributions. In particular, A closed-form expressions for...

Shanker [3] obtained a PoissonAkash distribution (PAD), a Poisson mixture of Akash distribution, and discussed its various statistical and mathematical properties along with estimation of parameter and applications for count data from different fields of knowledge. Shanker [4,5] has also introduced size-biased and zero-truncated version of PAD and studied their properties, estimation of paramet...

BACKGROUND During the past several years, there has been a growing interest in the negative effects that providing therapy may have on therapists. Of special interest is a phenomenon called secondary traumatization, which can arise while working with traumatized clients. To develop a simple screening tool for secondary traumatization, a quantitative assessment instrument was constructed using a...

AIM Compare the prevalence and associated factors of lifetime suicidal ideation, plans and attempts in the Hui and Han ethnic groups in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of China. METHODS Using a probability proportionate to size sampling method and villages (in rural areas) or neighborhoods (in urban areas) as primary sampling units, 5880 residents aged 18 and over were sampled. Face-to-face...