Revisiting family history

Revisiting the social history for child health.

Brief screening for family psychiatric history: the family history screen.

BACKGROUND Brief screens to collect lifetime family psychiatric history are useful in clinical practice and for identifying potential families for genetic studies. METHODS The Family History Screen (FHS) collects information on 15 psychiatric disorders and suicidal behavior in informants and their first-degree relatives. Since each question is posed only once about all family members as a gro...

Revisiting the Ordered Family of Lorenz Curves

Sarabia et al. (1999) present a basic model to create ordered families of Lorenz curves, along with basic theorems that describe the conditions for the models to satisfy the definition of the Lorenz curve. Using these basic models, they suggest a family which includes several well-known Lorenz models as special cases. This paper first shows that their basic theorems can be generalized. The pape...

Revisiting Parrondo’s Paradox for the Logistic Family

The aim of this paper is to investigate the existence of Parrondo’s paradox for the logistic family fa(x) = ax(1−x), x ∈ [0, 1], when the parameter value a ranges over the interval [1, 4]. We find that a paradox of type “order + order = chaos” arises for both physically observable and topological chaos, while a “chaos + chaos = order” paradox can be only detected for the case of physically obse...

The family in history

an intellectual giant; quite possibly he was not. It does not alter the fact that several very astute successors have been standing on his shoulders, including Pasteur who in 1881, at the height of his career, had no qualms at all about acknowledging his debt to Jenner. Paradoxically the present volume leaves a reader who had no illusions about Jenner-as nobody who has read for example Dixon's ...