Aim Artificial island habitats such as human-made wetlands are emerging novel ecosystems. Understanding the drivers of diversity in artificial systems is essential for balancing goals biodiversity conservation and human socio-economic needs. Location Telangana state, India. Methods We surveyed water birds a network 57 assessed four macroecological patterns: spatial betadiversity, temporal speci...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to evaluate the association between different types of child maltreatment and the presence of psychiatric disorders in highly vulnerable children and adolescents served by a multidisciplinary program. METHODS In total, 351 patients with a mean age of 12.47, of whom 68.7% were male and 82.1% lived in shelters, underwent psychiatric evaluations based o...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) symptoms frequently occur in subjects with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). While there is evidence that both ADHD and ASD have differential structural correlates, no study to date has investigated these structural correlates within a framework that robustly accounts for the phenotypic overlap between the two disorders. The presence of ASD symptoms...

A Turing degree d bounds a principle P of reverse mathematics if every computable instance of P has a d-computable solution. P admits a universal instance if there exists a computable instance such that every solution bounds P. We prove that the stable version of the ascending descending sequence principle (SADS) as well as the stable version of the thin set theorem for pairs (STS(2)) do not ad...

OBJECTIVE The current study was conducted to determine if post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology predicted later development of non-PTSD anxiety disorders in children and adolescents victimized by interpersonal trauma. METHODS Thirty-four children with a history of interpersonal trauma and no initial diagnosis of anxiety disorder participated in the study. Children were assessed...

OBJECTIVE The association between maternal bonding style, offspring low self-esteem and offspring depression status was assessed by maternal depression status. SUBJECTS Sixty mothers and 137 offspring were independently assessed over the course of a ten year follow-up study. METHOD Assessments included the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (SADS-LA), Schedule for Affective ...

Objective: We aimed at designing a cross sectional study to investigate the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in Iranian children and adolescents (IRCAP) and to determine its relationship with social capital, life style, and parents' personality disorders. Method: This cross sectional study was a national project implemented in all provinces of Iran. In this community-based study, using ‎mult...

Sudden unexpected death is defined as a natural unexpected fatal event that occurs within 1 hour of the onset of symptoms in an apparently healthy subject or in one whose disease was not so severe as to predict such an abrupt outcome. Approximately 294 851 adults and 2000 children die of sudden unexpected death in the United States each year. Evidence from a Danish population suggests an incide...

BACKGROUND Child abuse is a phenomenon that confronts the child, family, and society with irretrievable physical and mental injuries, and its negative effects continue until adulthood. OBJECTIVES The present study was conducted to identify and evaluate cases of abused children at a medical center. PATIENTS AND METHODS This is a descriptive-analytic study. The subjects were all children and ...