Her article, entitled “Reliable Ratings or Reading Tea Leaves: Can Parent, Teacher and Clinician Behavioral ratings at Preschoolers Predict ADHD at Age Six?”, published earlier this month in the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, found that behaviour ratings during a child’s preschool years were most likely to be predictive of later outcomes when all three informants flagged a child for show...

Hair loss is a common complain of women receiving renal replacement therapy. Apart from its emotional impact on the patient, hair loss might allude to several underlying diseases. Differential diagnoses include malnutrition, adverse effects of drugs, endocrine, inflammatory or autoimmune disorders, abnormal behaviour (trichotillomania) or tinea capitis [1]. Therefore, a thorough exploration of ...

An abandoned 8-year-old male child, who was subjected to physical abuse, presented with abnormal behaviour and focal seizures. The focal seizures included involuntary running attacks (epilepsia cursiva) and uncontrollable laughter (gelastic epilepsy). The occurrence of cursive and gelastic seizures in the same patient is extremely rare. These fits were probably a late sequel of head trauma.

β-Carotene, a potent provitamin A carotenoid having multifaceted physiological activities, could ameliorate the different types of abnormal behaviour in rats after the administration of heroin. The administration of different doses of heroin, viz LD25, LD50 showed various degrees of abnormal conditions and behaviours such as depletion of body weight, retinol reserve, decrease of water intake, p...

Outliers in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are sensor nodes that issue attacks by abnormal behaviours and fake message dissemination. However, existing cryptographic techniques are hard to detect these inside attacks, which cause outlier recognition a critical and challenging issue for reliable and secure data dissemination in WSNs. To efficiently identify and isolate outliers, this study pres...

Intensive husbandry of ducks is currently creating problems with regard to the welfare of these birds. The improvement of hygiene conditions and rationalisation of husbandry have created a poor and restrictive environment, leading to the appearance of abnormal behaviour patterns, such as certain types of pecking. Solutions are proposed. Many factors are involved and vast fields remain open for ...

Fish were collected from Nath Sagar, Paithan 50 kms away from Aurangabad and were brought to the laboratory and exposed to industrial effluent (tannery effluent). Behavioral changes and responses of the fish to the tannery effluent were observed. Control fish showed normal behaviour and swimming in contrast the effluent exposed fish showed abnormal swimming, loss of equilibrium, fading of colou...

of paper submitted to IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, pp.3565-3571, The Hague, Holland, October 2004 © Essex University 2004 1 Title Page Title of the abstract A Neuro-Fuzzy Embedded Agent Based Approach for Abnormal Behaviour Detection in Intelligent Environments Type of text EXTENDED ABSTRACT Authors names F. Rivera-Illingworth V. Callaghan

Many facilities that house captive primates play music for animal enrichment or for caregiver enjoyment. However, the impact on primates is unknown as previous studies have been inconclusive. We conducted three studies with zoo-housed chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and one with group-housed chimpanzees at the National Centre for Chimpanzee Care to investigate the effects of classical and pop/roc...

The fluorimetric titration behaVIOur of naphthylammes IS abnormal In that the sum of the reduced quantum yields of conjugated aCid and base passes through a minimum. Based on fluorescence quantum yield and I1fetime measuremc'lts, we e....plaln thiS behaVIOur by two Independent mechamsms: A dlabatlc quenching of the excltcd base by protons and a decrease of the e....clted cation's protolytlc diS...