BACKGROUND There is increasing interest in identifying adolescents with depression in primary care settings by paediatricians in India. This article studied the diagnostic accuracy, reliability and validity of Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) while used by paediatricians in a primary care setting in India. METHODS 181 adolescents attending 3 schools were administered a back translated Tamil ve...

Joining the debate on the structure of depression, S. R. H. Bearh and N. Amir (2003) analyzed college students' responses to 6 Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) items with predominantly somatic content and concluded that they identified a small latent taxon corresponding to involuntary defeat syndrome. An exact replication of these analyses yielded virtually identical taxometric results, but para...

This paper builds upon the work of Kent Beck on Extreme Programming. Here we advance some ideas on how requirements engineering research can improve Extreme Programming and how the managerial common sense exposed by Beck can improve requirements management. The ideas expressed in the paper are anchored on Beck ́s book and on our long experience in Software Engineering. Our main argument is that ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The aims of this study were to elucidate the cognitive functions of narcoleptics and determine whether intelligence protects against cognitive dysfunction and depressive mood in these patients. METHODS Sixty-six subjects (33 narcoleptics, 33 controls) were administered a battery of neuropsychological tests and an individual standardized intelligence test. The cognitive ...