With the significant growth in available electronic education materials such as syllabus documents and lecture notes on the Internet and intranets there is a need for developing efficient indexing/categorizing mechanisms to organize such E-documents in institutional repositories. In this paper we describe our approach for automatic classification of syllabus documents in the national Irish syll...

A case of hand self-mutilation in six years old girl with totals persistent obstetric brachial plexus palsy was presented. Self-mutilation involved biting the tips of the digits what lead to removal of nail of IV finger and partial V finger distal phalanx amputation. Furthermore, possible etiology, mechanism, evaluation of this behavior and literature was discussed in the text.

OBJECTIVE Individuals who mutilate themselves are at greater risk for suicidal behavior. Clinically, however, there is a perception that the suicide attempts of self-mutilators are motivated by the desire for attention rather than by a genuine wish to die. The purpose of this study was to determine differences between suicide attempters with and without a history of self-mutilation. METHOD Th...

OBJECTIVES To explore how Somali women exposed to female genital mutilation experience and perceive antenatal and intrapartum care in England. We explored women's perceptions of deinfibulation, caesarean section and vaginal delivery; their experiences of care during pregnancy and labour; and factors that affect ability to access these services, in order to make recommendations about future prac...

Although self-mutilation has been studied from medical and individual perspectives, it has rarely been examined within a social stress context. As such, we use a social stress framework to examine risk factors for self-mutilation to determine whether status strains that are often associated with poorer health outcomes in the general population are also associated with self-mutilation among a sa...

UK female genital mutilation laws discriminate against specific women and infantilise them. Female types accord with those of the politically partisan World Health Organisation, but new instances reported are piercings. Most seen in National Service is less severe than male circumcision, which not illegal. The laws, monitoring reporting systems need reviewing a view to decriminalising mutilation.

International Family Planning Perspectives Women who have undergone female genital mutilation have a higher risk for adverse obstetric outcomes than women who have not, and the risks seem to be greater with more severe mutilation, according to the first large-scale prospective study of the effects of female genital mutilation on maternal and neonatal outcomes.1 Relative to women who have not un...

A course offering is a collection of learning objects composed together based on a syllabus. Syllabi define the contents of the course, as well as other information such as resources and assignments. Currently, there is no standard format for representing syllabi that can facilitate automatic processing of syllabi contents for various applications. In this paper, we report on the current practi...

case presentation an elderly woman in a manic phase of bipolar disorder without a previous history of psychiatric disorders was concomitant with problematic sexual over stimulation in the context of hyper sexuality. she had traumatized her genitals and underwent surgery for their repair. following her admission and psychopharmacologic therapy, she recovered. introduction late onset bipolar diso...