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This work tests the psychometric features of the Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire (WDEQ), a self-report instrument that measures the fear of childbirth, in an Italian sample. To 522 Italian primiparous women attending antenatal classes, the following assessments were administered: Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire (Wijma, Wijma, & Zar, 1998), StateTrait Anxiet...

Abstract In this paper, the timer control and inverter of pumping system are modelled simulated. The effects evaporation, rainfall seepage considered to make model more practical. proposed VFD used motor pump, which saves a lot cost. MATLAB/SCIP optimization software was implement developed model. Simulation assess performance electrical switching system. Two scenarios were simulate model: firs...

This edition of the Journal starts with the big questions in psychiatry: what is a diagnosis? And how does one justify treatment against the will of the individual? The next version of the World Health Organization’s bible, the ICD–11, is being prepared at the same time as the American Psychiatric Association’s fifth edition of the DSM. The push for harmonising these two different systems is di...

universal across cultures and is documented in many ethnographic studies. Khalifa &Hardie assert that possession states can be understood only through a combination of biological, anthropological, sociological, psychopathological and experimental perspectives. Psychiatrist and anthropologist Roland Littlewood sees possession as the belief that an individual has been entered by an alien spirit o...