Participants were 390 students (221 boys, 169 girls; mean age 17.1 years, SD 1.1; range 15 to 20 years). They were drawn from a random sample of 14 classes from 3 secondary and grammar schools in the departments of Haute-Garonne and Pyrénées-Orientales, France. Participants completed a questionnaire assessing the frequency and preferred method of cannabis use. We assessed cannabis dependence ac...

A silage inoculant [Biomin® BioStabil Plus, BSP, a blend of Enterococcus faecium (DSM 3530), Lactobacillus brevis (DSM 19456) and Lactobacillus plantarum (DSM 19457)], was used on legume-grass silage [32% of dry matter (DM)] vs. an untreated control silage (CT). The material had mean crude protein (CP) and water soluble carbohydrate (WSC) concentrations of 174 and 88 g/kg,respectively. BSP resu...

Abnormal function of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) has been recently shown to underlie various disorders cornification. Here we aimed at delineating genetic basis a novel dominant form palmoplantar keratoderma (PPK). Whole exome sequencing revealed heterozygous variants in CTSZ encoding cathepsin Z 4 affected individuals belonging 3 unrelated families. Bioinformatics and protein m...

Mental healthcare of elderly people is a common problem in advanced countries. Recently, high technology has developed robots for use not only in factories but also for our living environment. In particular, human-interactive robots for psychological enrichment, which provide services by interacting with humans while stimulating their minds, are rapidly spreading. Such robots not only simply en...

PURPOSE Because recognition and management of patients with somatoform disorders are difficult, we wanted to determine the specificity, sensitivity, and the test-retest reliability of the 15-symptom Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-15) for detection of somatoform disorders in a high-risk primary care population. METHODS We studied the performance of the PHQ-15 in comparison with the Structur...

Objetivo: Analisar o Manual Diagnóstico e Estatístico de Transtorno Mentais (DSM) enquanto um dispositivo info-comunicacional. Método: Realizou-se uma pesquisa bibliográfica, abordagem qualitativa. O DSM foi analisado a partir da proposta Foucault (1977), para quem é definido pela estrutura seus elementos heterogêneos sua gênese. Resultado: A primeira edição do Manual, DSM-I, elaborada então Am...

2014 We have investigated the dichroic properties and the existence of metastable excited states of several colour centres created by X-irradiation in CaF2 : Na. According to our results absorption bands peaking at 600, 385 and 322 nm are associated to the same centre which behaves optically as orthorhombic. The lack of observation of a metastable state is in favour of the F+2A model for this c...