BACKGROUND Sharing interim data, results or result extrapolations is an important issue that can affect trial integrity. The different ways in which Data Safety Monitoring Boards (DSMBs) share interim results with non-DSMB members and the acceptability of such practices are poorly understood. Our objective was to undertake a narrative review specifically on what kind of interim results, if any,...

The widely shocking attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11 was interpreted differently by various institutions worldwide, ranging from America's legitimate motive to begin a 'war on terror' to defend her 'very freedom', to a pretext for Bush administration to pursue G. H. W. Bush's temptation for 'a new world order'. Various institutions, therefore, made use of their...

Previous studies have used the Innovative Moments Coding System (IMCS) to describe the process of change in Narrative Therapy (NT) and in Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT). This study aims to extend this research program to a sample of Client-Centered Therapy (CCT). The IMCS was applied to six cases of CCT for depression to track the Innovative Moments (IMs) which are exceptions to the problematic ...

BACKGROUND Systematic studies of the efficacy of Narrative Therapy (NT) for depression are sparse. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of individual NT for moderate depression in adults compared to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT). METHOD Sixty-three depressed clients were assigned to either NT or CBT. The Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) and Outcome Questionnaire-45.2 (OQ-45.2) were ...

There are ~900,000 new HIV infections among women every year, representing nearly half of all new HIV infections globally. In the US, nearly one-fifth of all new HIV infections occur among women, and women from racial and ethnic minority communities experience disproportionately high rates of new HIV infections. Thus, there is a need to develop and implement effective HIV prevention strategies ...

The development of Korean films is tortuous, and a number outstanding have emerged in the 21st century. Among them, “revenge trilogy” are famous, while they also made director Park Chan-wook become world-renowned. His break through restriction film genre set up complicated revenge structure, carefully constructed space-time setting role-building morally ambiguous characters. elements blood, vio...

the iranian “new wave” filmmakers started to pay attention to social changes during the pahlavi regime. imperial pahlavi successfully suppressed his political oppositions in decade of 1332-1342 (hijri shamsi) and spread a social reform during the following decades in 40’s to 50’s. the iranian cinematic movement that was called new wave by some persian film critics because of its similarly to th...

As technology continues to advance, science fiction films are adopting new narrative forms. The Hollywood-produced film “Dune” follows the traditional model while also absorbing elements from popular culture, thus becoming a type of secular mythology. It takes one step further and becomes what Deleuze describes as paradigm cinematic narrative, known “pure optical sound situations”. By studying ...