OBJECTIVE The authors assessed the growth of the literature on the topic of personality disorders before and after publication of DSM-III. METHOD A MEDLINE search was conducted for journal articles concerning the personality disorders that were published from 1966 to 1995. RESULTS Contrary to the authors' prediction, the growth of this literature was slower after the publication of DSM-III ...

Abstract This article reflects on some textual and institutional elements that distinguish literary life in Portuguese-speaking African countries. These concern, firstly, the peculiarities of Portuguese empire. Combining precarity, epistemological backwardness, violence equal proportion, it inspired an artistic response was consolidated even before independences. Secondly, they relate to type d...

Sir, Chromoblastomycosis is a chronic cutaneous and subcutaneous infection due to a group of dematiaceous fungi including Fonsecaea pedrosoi, Cladophialophora carrionii, Phialophora verrucosa, F. compacta and Rhinocladiella aquaspersa (1). This infection occurs in tropical and subtropical regions and results from traumatic implantation of material contaminated by the fungus (1, 2). We report he...

The stem cell is the origin of an organism’s life that has the potential to develop into many different types of cells in life bodies. In many tissues stem cells serve as a sort of internal repair system, dividing essentially without limit to replenish other cells as long as the person or animal is still alive. When a stem cell divides, each new cell has the potential either to remain a stem ce...