Scales to measure helplessness and hopelessness were found to have good reliability and concurrent validity and were significantly correlated with suicidal ideation.

Inside living cells are complex mixtures of thousands of components. It is hopeless to try to characterize all the individual interactions in these mixtures. Thus, we develop a statistical approach to approximating them, and examine the conditions under which the mixtures phase separate. The approach approximates the matrix of second-virial coefficients of the mixture by a random matrix, and de...

Background and Objectives: Prayer is one of the most important religious ordinances and is one of the necessities of Islam. In spite of the progression of medicine science, it is sometimes seen that the mundane subjects become hopeless in curing physical diseases and this time, the hopeless man appeals to the Lord God. This review study was conducted to examine the positive and negative views r...

This study examined whether children's inferential styles moderate the association between the onset of depressive symptoms in children and their parents. To provide a powerful test of our hypotheses, we utilized a high-risk sample (parents with a history of major depressive episodes and their children) and a multiwave longitudinal design. During the initial assessment, 140 children (ages 6 to ...

F or the past decade a debate has raged in the medical, ethical, and legal communities over medical futility. The concept is not new, especially as it applies to end-of-life care. Physicians since the time of Hippocrates have recognized some medical conditions as hopeless and have accordingly recommended no further treatment for the patients suffering them. But what has fueled the fires of the ...

We examined the relationship between self-compassion and hopelessness depression. The participants were 418 students at a technology college in Hunan, China, who completed questionnaires to measure self-compassion, hopelessness depression, and negative cognitive style. The results showed that self-compassion was negatively associated with both hopelessness depression and negative cognitive styl...

BACKGROUND Suicidal ideation can often lead to suicide attempts and completed suicide. Studies have shown that Sri Lanka has one of the highest rates of suicide in the world but so far no studies have looked at prevalence of suicidal ideation in a general population in Sri Lanka. AIMS We wanted to determine the prevalence of suicidal ideation by randomly selecting six Divisional Secretariats ...

practice we know that when a child reaches three and one-half years of age without speech, he is slow but the case is not by that fact alone, hopeless. Parents who are alert in these matters and aware of what constitutes normal development are coming in greater numbers to solicit the advice of experts in the case of retardation, and it is the wise mother who early seeks the reason for delayed d...

Glass is an ultraviscous liquid that ceases to flow on a laboratory timescale but continues to relax on a geological timescale. Quintessentially, it has become hopeless for humans to explore the equilibrium behavior of glass, although the technology of glass making witness a remarkable advance. In this work, we propose a novel thermodynamic path to prepare a high density amorphous state of matt...

Suppose we consider a commodity like oil, both demand and supply functions are subject to various shocks that shift the two curves around. What we see –at best– is a set of intersections. In the absence of any further information the problem of uncovering separate S and D curves is hopeless. This point was made in the classic (1928) paper of E. J. Working – “What do Statistical Demand Curves Sh...