Anecdotal evidence suggests an increase in entitled attitudes and behaviors of youth in school and college settings. Using a newly developed scale to assess ‘‘academic entitlement’’ (AE), a construct that includes expectations of high grades for modest effort and demanding attitudes towards teachers, this research is the first to investigate the phenomenon systematically. In two separate sample...

‘This research was supported by the following grants: NIH Grant RR-00785; NIH Grant RR-00711; Boeing Grant W266875; NASA/Ames Grant NCC 2-274; DARPA Contract N00039-83-C0136; ONR Contract N00014-86-K-0652. We thank Micheal Hewett, M. Vaughan Johnson Jr., Robert Schulman and Jeff Harvey for their work on BBl. We thank Russ Altman, Jim Brinkley, Bruce Duncan, Olivier Lichtarge, John Brugge, and O...

The anterior insular cortex (AIC) is implicated in a wide range of conditions and behaviors, from bowel distension and orgasm, to cigarette craving and maternal love, to decision-making and sudden insight (“aha!”) . Its function in the re-representation of interoception offers one possible basis for its involvement in all subjective feelings. New findings suggest a fundamental role for the AIC ...

The discipline of systems analysis is still very young and in common with most other emerging disciplines it occasionally enters periods of radical self examination and re-thinking. The authors feel that we are in the midst of such a phase at present; new ideas abound, arguments rage, and the development of technology is a powerful impetus to the re-examination of ideas. The reason for the curr...

nineteen patterns with cml have been transplanted in our bone marrow transplantation (bmt) section since 1991, the mean age of these patients was 26.05 (sd = 9.35). our conditioning regimen for these patients was cyclophosphamide 60mglkg for 2 days and busulfan 4mglkg for 4 consecutive days. eleven patients are still alive arid eight patients died during follow-up ranging from 6 months to 5 yea...

Aberrant DNA methylation has been reported as an important phenotype in acute myeloid leukemia. However the clinical significance of methylation changes has not been clear yet. In this study methylation Specific Melting Curve Analysis (MS-MCA) and real time PCR was used to assess the CDKN2B promoter hyper-methylation and gene expression in 59 Iranian acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients. The i...

Neuroimaging evidences have shown the association of intelligence with several structural brain properties in normal individuals. However, this association for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is need to be investigated. we estimated grey matter density of the brain using MRI scanning on 56 ADHD individuals comprising 30 combined (age=10.44±2.41, IQ=112.13±13.15, male, 24 right h...

Introduction: It has been shown that intelligence as a general mental ability is related to the structure and function of the brain regions. However, the specificity of these regional dependencies to the intelligence scores in the typical and atypical developed individuals needs to be well understood. In this study, we hypothesized that neural correlates of IQ should not have a fixed pattern ra...

background : malnutrition represents an important issue in older adults; unfortunately, there is lack of data concerning this topic in lebanon. this paper aims to provide a description of nutritional status and its correlates in older adults living in long stay institutions situated in beirut. methods : this cross-sectional study was conducted in three long stay institutions in beirut in 2012. ...