A Spanish-language translation of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-III (WAIS-III), normed in Mexico, is sometimes used when evaluating Spanish-speaking defendants in capital cases in order to diagnose possible mental retardation (MR). Although the manual for the Mexican test suggests use of the U.S. norms when diagnosing MR, the Mexican norms-which produce full-scale scores on average 12 p...

The European Medicines Agency has taken important steps towards increasing its transparency over recent years. Mr Gotzsche and Mr Jorgensen themselves have acknowledged that the Agency's new access to documents policy which became effective in November 2010 has pushed transparency further forward than in most other drug regulatory authorities. The current policy grants wider access than ever be...

Abstract:This study aims at measuring the relationship between students‟ attitude toward govern-ment‟s virtual social network policy making with social security feeling, in another word, to which extent social security feeling emphasizing on social networks is determined via users‟ attitude toward government‟s media policy making? Analytical-descriptive method including survey is used in ...

In an analysis of the French episode of heat wave in 2003, this article highlights how heat wave dangers result from the intricate association of natural and social factors. Unusually high temperatures, as well as socioeconomic vulnerability, along with social attenuation of hazards, in a general context where the anthropogenic contribution to climate change is becoming more plausible, led to a...

s, 21(4), 12–20. Mullen, E. J. (2003a). Evidence-based practice. Unpublished manuscript, Danish University of Education, Copenhagen. Mullen, E. J. (2003b). Evidence-based practice and social work professionals: Implications for social MULLEN AND STREINER 120 Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention / 4:2 Summer 2004 work’s future. Unpublished manuscript, Verwey-Jonker Instituut, Utrecht, Netherl...

this article contends that legitimacy in the exercise of power comes from the consent of those subject to it. in global health, this implies that the participation of poor country citizens is required for the legitimacy of major actors and institutions. but a review of institutions and processes suggests that this participation is limited or absent. particularly because of the complex political...

c Preface This study reviews policies that have been adopted and action taken with a view to decentralization in the various countries of the region. It addresses the issue at two levels: national or macro level and urban or micro level. At the national level, the paper reviews the policies adopted by different countries in the region which address administrative, political and fiscal decentral...

Let us start with an example of health policy analysis in action. Within that category of countries loosely known as ‘the West’, quite basic differences exist in attitudes to health policy and also actual health policy. Comparing the US with mainland Europe and indeed Canada, for example, one perceives a difference in attitude on the part of the majority towards collectivism and individualism i...

BACKGROUND The brain biochemical changes of social anxiety have not been clarified although there have been a limited number of MR spectroscopic studies which utilized metabolite/creatine ratios. Present study aimed to explore the alteration of absolute metabolite concentration in social anxiety disorder using quantitative MR spectroscopy. MATERIALS AND METHODS With a 3.0T MR scanner, single ...