The authors describe their treatment of a 24-year-old repentant, extremely observant Jewish man with major depressive disorder who complained of persecution by a personal angel. The therapists initiated a culturally sensitive psychotherapy of the patient, enacting a ritual summoning of the angel that resulted in the angel's transformation into an ally. The authors discuss the relationship of th...

face is turned towards the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This ...

Additional cytogenetic changes do not influence the outcome of patients with newly diagnosed acute promyelocytic leukemia treated with an ATRA plus anthracyclin based protocol. A report from the Spanish group PETHEMA Jesus María Hernández, Guillermo Martín, Norma Carmen Gutiérrez, José Cervera, María Teresa Ferro, María José Calasanz, José Angel Martínez-Climent, Elisa Luño, Mar Tormo, Consuelo...

patients  with  primary  antibody  deficiencies  (pad)  are  susceptible  to  recurrent  and chronic infections and a variety of complications. this study was performed to assess quality of life (qol) of pad patients who were under long term treatment and regular follow-up.thirty six adults with proved diagnosis of pad, who had received regular intravenous immunoglobulin replacement therapy, we...

combining ability, gene action, heritability and other genetic parameters in bread wheat under drought stress condition were evaluated using half diallel design. nine wheat cultivars and 36 derived f1 assessed in a randomized complete block design with three replications in shahid bahonar university of kerman research field in 2013. evaluated genotypes showed high diversity for all traits. gene...

AUTHORS: María Rodríguez-Soler (1-2), Lucía Pérez-Carbonell (2), Carla Guarinos (2), Pedro Zapater (3), Adela Castillejo (4), Victor M. Barberá (4), Miriam Juárez (2), Xavier Bessa (5), Rosa M. Xicola (6), Juan Clofent (7), Luis Bujanda (8), Francesc Balaguer (9), Josep-Maria Reñé (10), Luisa de-Castro (11), José C. Marín-Gabriel (12), Angel Lanas (13), Joaquín Cubiella (14), David Nicolás-Pére...

This paper represents a summary of primary empirical research on angel investing across the United States. Data is based on responses from 121 angel investors to a detailed survey reporting on 1,038 new venture investments and 414 exit events from those investments. These investors currently have approximately $100M invested in 624 ongoing new ventures. The one of a kind data set consists of in...