AIM The primary aim of the research was to identify factors which are associated with the appearance of induced psychotic disorders. The psychological and social factors and cultural diversity of symptoms and course of folie à deux were taken into account. METHOD The author's review of literature on the topic of folie à deux. RESULTS Folie à deux was first described in the 19th century. Sin...

background: consideration of risk factors of cancer and their clinical consequences is important. the purpose of this study was to investigate the predictive role of psychosocial and demographical risk factors for odds ratio of suffering by of cancer. methods: in a case- control study, 335 included 163 patients with cancers (solid tumors) of those patients that attended to cancer institute hosp...

1. The role of genetic factors in species decline and extinction is the subject of a long-running controversy, with demographical factors often seen as more important for the immediate persistence of populations and species. One gene system that directly links genetic diversity with reproduction, through its influence on fertilization success, is the self-incompatibility (SI) locus in angiosper...

The link between location features and the propensity to start a new firm is a subject that did not get much attention in Iran until recently. This paper is the first attempt on this proposition and is concerned with deliberating the effect of demographical and industrial characteristics of location on start-up rates in Iranian manufacturing industries. To fulfill this aim, regional panel data ...

Purpose Quality failures in the design and construction process can entail significant delays costs. Databases of building defects have proven to be useful for drawing conclusions on underlying causes identifying potential improvement actions reduce occurrence defects. Design/methodology/approach The database comprising 27,074 cases from a Belgian insurance company was studied, it found that mo...