Research on developmental trajectories of early maladaptive features for understanding later personality disorders (PDs) is increasingly recognized as an important study area. The course of early odd features is highly relevant in this regard, as only a few researchers have addressed childhood oddity in the context of emerging PDs. Using latent growth modeling, the current study explores growth...

The gene recently cloned that is responsible for the Pendred syndrome (PDS), an autosomal recessive disease characterized by goiter and congenital sensorineural deafness, is mainly expressed in the thyroid gland. Its product, designated pendrin, was shown to transport chloride and iodide. To investigate whether the PDS gene is altered during thyroid tumorigenesis, PDS gene expression and pendri...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate performance characteristics of DSM-IV Personality Disorders (PDs) criteria. METHOD Six hundred and sixty-eight adults recruited for the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study (CLPS) were assessed with diagnostic interviews. RESULTS Within-category inter-relatedness was evaluated by Cronbach's alpha and median intercriterion correlations (MIC). Cronbach'...

Background: Food security has been a target in India since its independence; the primary aim of food security is to ensure enough staple food for the entire population. Although substantial progress was made through the adoption of green revolution (GR) technologies and implementation of the food public distribution system (PDS), desirable food and nutrition security, as defined by the food and...

An appropriate project delivery system (PDS) is crucial to the success of a construction projects. Case-based Reasoning (CBR) is a useful support for PDS selection. However, the traditional CBR approach represents cases as attribute-value vectors without taking relations among attributes into consideration, and could not calculate the similarity when the structures of cases are not strictly sam...

Objective: To determine the perceptions of general surgery PDs (program directors) concerning the necessity for HPB (hepatopancreatobiliary) fellowships to practicing HPB surgery. Methods: A 22-question electronic survey was sent to 250 general surgery PDs recognized by the American Association of Medical Colleges in the United States regarding the experience and competency of graduating genera...

OBJECTIVES To determine pediatric program director (PD) approval and perception of changes to resident training and patient care resulting from 2011 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Common Program Requirements. METHODS All US pediatric PDs (n = 181) were identified from the ACGME. Functional e-mail addresses were identified for 164 (90.6%). Three individualized e-m...

This paper presents a cryptanalysis of Pseudonymous Digital Signature(PDS) described in [8]. PDS proposed with respect to Pseudonymous Identification Scheme Intended to generate pseudonyms by trusted third party (usually the pseudonymity service provider) for registered users and organizations that provides on –line services. The results shows that the PDS very fast and highly secure with a com...

OBJECTIVE To determine how unprofessional behavior by residents is identified/ managed within residency programs, and under what conditions concerns are communicated to potential employers. STUDY DESIGN A web-based survey was emailed to 241 directors of US obstetrics and gynecology residency programs. RESULTS 141 program directors (PDs) responded (58%). 84% of PDs indicated that problems wi...