Many studies have found an inverse correlation between religious/spiritual involvement and depression. Yet several obstacles impede spiritually integrated treatment of depressed individuals. These include specialization and fragmentation of care, inexperience of clinicians and spiritual care providers, ideological bias, boundary and ethical concerns, and the lack of an accepted conceptual frame...

The article examines suro nipa, a popular maxim of the Akan people Ghana, against backdrop fictional tale told in novel by A. E. Asiamah titled Suro Nipa. An ambitious young man named Kwabena Anson who owned flourishing business was driven arrant desire for instant fabulous wealth to engage fiendish act. He sought assistance money-making spiritualist requested him spiritually sacrifice life bel...

Psychoacoustics, or rather Psychological Acoustics, plays a significant role to date in many areas of application within acoustics. It therefore has a long and vast history to look back upon. Within its history, one central figure is definitely Hermann von Helmholtz. He paved the way for interdisciplinary acoustic r esearch in his genius book “Die Lehre von den Tonempfindungen”. At his laborato...

BACKGROUND Patients suffering from diabetes show defective bacterial clearance. This study investigates the effects of elevated plasma glucose levels during diabetes on leukocyte recruitment and function in established models of inflammation. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Diabetes was induced in C57Bl/6 mice by intravenous alloxan (causing severe hyperglycemia), or by high fat diet (moderate...

A 53-year-old man presented with fevers, productive cough and decreased appetite. He emigrated from Iraq 4 years ago. Chest x-ray revealed a left lung consolidation. Respiratory cultures and two sets of blood cultures grew out pan-susceptible Klebsiella pneumoniae Liver ultrasound revealed a 6.4-cm complex lesion in the left hepatic lobe. A biopsy of the liver lesion produced bloody purulent as...

I had been asked to speak about the contributions of Dick Dalitz to Particle Physics. I was very pleased to be able to do this as an expression of my good fortune to have worked with him. This was an opportunity to present a synopsis of his contributions to an audience that may not have known about some of this history. In choosing a sampling of Dalitz’s work, I relied on the talks that were gi...

Spanish clones of penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae are the most common clones recovered in recent cases of meningitis in Spain. international multiresistant Streptococcus pneumoniae clone resistant to fluoroquinolones and other families of antibiotics. Increasing resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae to fluoro-quinolones: results of a Hong Kong multicentre study in 2000. Streptoco...