BENEFITS QUARTERLY, Second Quarter 2001 37 M ajor depressive disorder is a costly and debilitating disease that can have detrimental effects on quality of life, job productivity and family relationships, as well as pose a substantial risk for mortality. Depression is a relatively common disease, affecting almost 20% of adults in the United States at some point during their lives.[1] According t...

This study utilized an external logger system for onsite measurements of computer activities of two professional groups-twelve university administrators and twelve computer-aided design (CAD) draftsmen. Computer use of each participant was recorded for 10 consecutive days-an average of 7.9+/-1.8 workdays and 7.8+/-1.5 workdays for administrators and draftsmen, respectively. Quantitative paramet...

andre makine, a writer of russian ancestry residing in france, propounds the west enthusiastically and lyrically in his early novels. he visualizes the west as a lost paradise which is both fascinating and fanciful contrary to his childhood vision of russia. however, as time passes, following his immigration to france, his encounter with reality shatters and ruins the rudimental idealism which ...

sorts. Still more important and hopeful is the tendency through freer methods to give children an opportunity of pursuing their daily activities of work and play in such a way as to allow them unconsciously to find and maintain their own rhythm, physical, emotional, and intellectual. The various experiments in the schools of to-day, where a " free time-table " within the bounds of law and order...

Results: A total of 5321 laboratory requests comprising 4506 malaria parasites (MP), 414 urine microscopy, culture and sensitivity (urine m/c/s), and 410 blood culture were made, processed and reports generated. Of these, 1040 (19.6%) were not collected or delivered to the requesting physician. Urine m/c/s with 37.9% (157/414) accounted for the highest test-specific non-collected reports, close...

A distinguishing feature of hypermedia applications is the possibility of navigational access by the user. Although this type of access can be an advantage, there many problems associated with it, for example user disorientation ("lost in hyperspace"). This paper presents the concept of navigational context, which is used to design the navigation structure of a hypermedia application. Navigatio...

Jesus’ kind of leaders have influence because they are learners. Their classwork with The Rabbi is never dismissed. Jesus invites, “Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart...” (Matt. 11:29, italics mine). Because the “take my yoke” command gets more attention than the “learn from me” command, it’s worth considering a few points as to how learning relates to ...

Both nulling and subpulse drifting are poorly understood phenomena. We probe their mechanisms by investigating how they interact in PSR B0809+74. We find that the subpulse drift is not aliased but directly reflects the actual motion of the subbeams. The carousel-rotation time must then be over 200 s, which is much longer than theoretically predicted. The drift pattern after nulls differs from t...

INTRODUCTION Skin of cattle is often affected by Stephano-filarial infection in the Indian subcontinent and is commonly known as ‘Humpsore’. Nine species of the Stephanofilarial parasites have been reported from different parts of the world, but only Stephanofilaria assamensis has been reported as the causal agent of hump sore in eastern India. Though the name ‘Hump sore’ implies appearance of ...

The Petrova (2000) model to calculate pulse profiles is extended to a variable emission height model to make it physically self-consistent. In this context variable means that the emission height is no longer considered to be the same for different magnetic field lines. The pulse profiles calculated using this new model seem to be less realistic due to a focusing effect and cannot be used to fi...