Faculty members complain about the rise of uncivil behavior in their students, and students voice similar complaints about faculty. Using an interpretive qualitative method for research, this study examined student and faculty perceptions of incivility in nursing education, possible causes of incivility, and potential remedies. Narrative analysis yielded the following categories: in-class disru...

Thyroid disorders are among the common clinical disorders occurring in most communities. The main aim of this study was to determine the associated causes of hypoor hyperthyroidism occurrence. This study was a cross sectional retrospective study conducted to investigate hypoor hyperthyroid patients and contributing causes of hypoor hyperthyroidism occurrence during 2003-2007 in Hamadan. Data we...

In this paper we present a detailed computational model of agrammatic aphasia that is consistent with the Slow Syntax Hypothesis. In particular, our model postulates that the cause of the slowing of syntax processing is a deficit in overcoming irrelevant active lexical cues. This causes interference in retrieval of lexical and semantic information, which in turn causes a misrepresentation of se...

Eyewitness error is one of the leading causes of wrongful convictions. In fact, the American Psychological Association estimates that one in three eyewitnesses make an erroneous identification. In this review, we look briefly at some of the causes of eyewitness error. We examine what jurors, judges, attorneys, law officers, and experts from various countries know about eyewitness testimony and ...

BACKGROUND Pain is strongly related to poor quality of life. We performed a cross-sectional study in a university hospital to investigate quality of life in women suffering from chronic pelvic pain (CPP) due to endometriosis and others conditions. METHODS Fifty-seven patients aged between 25 and 48 years-old submitted to laparoscopy because of CPP were evaluated for quality of life and depres...

  When patients are at high risk of dying, their families experience burdens such as decision making on treatment choices and concern about the patient's condition that can cause the families' psychological symptoms. The aim of this study was to assess the main psychological reaction of the patients' family members in intensive care units. This analytical study was conducted by using Depression...

PURPOSE To systematically review articles reporting on depression, anxiety, and burnout among U.S. and Canadian medical students. METHOD Medline and PubMed were searched to identify peer-reviewed English-language studies published between January 1980 and May 2005 reporting on depression, anxiety, and burnout among U.S. and Canadian medical students. Searches used combinations of the Medical ...

purpose: to evaluate the etiologies of excessive blinking in children and teenagers less than 18 years of age in hamedan, iran. methods: this study was performed during 2009-2010 as a cross-sectional study on 50 children and teenagers less than 18 years old who were referred to sheikh-al-reis and farshchian clinics in hamedan for abnormal and excessive blinking. ophthalmic and neurologic examin...