PURPOSE To evaluate a new modified peritoneovenous shunt therapy, the externalized peritoneovenous shunt (EPVS) system placement, used to treat patients with malignant ascites. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed 10 patients, who were not suited for conventional peritoneovenous shunts (PVS), with malignant ascites, which was refractory to medical therapies. Patient characteristics, technical ...

The MLM (Multi-level marketing organization) is a logical outgrowth of the capitalist accumulation imperative as well neoliberal institution. MLMs are able to push typical retail overhead costs onto individual distributors, who expected act buyers, inventory holders, retailers, self-managers, recruiters, job trainers, and exert disciplinary control over their distributor lines. All distributor’...

THE FAITH LIVES OF LESBIANS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH: THE MODERATING ROLE OF INTERNALIZED HOMONEGATIVITY Dane R. Whicker, B.A. Marquette University, 2013 In many cases, having a faith life is associated with positive psychological health outcomes. However, for lesbians, the interplay between religious and sexual identities may be such that the opposite effect occurs, particularly among women wh...

Background: Moral commitments of therapists is the important subject that attracted the attention of researches in the field of medical ethics. The aim of this research was to investigate the relationship between basic psychological needs and moral identity among medical students. Method: The plan of this research is descriptive-correlation. Subjects were 140 medical interns of Shiraz Universi...

Progress in science is marked by the formation of theories that explain a body of observations. Contrary to this guiding philosophy, clinical psychologists have prescribed to an atheoretical system of diagnostic reasoning since 1980. We report two studies demonstrating that clinicians have not internalized atheoretical reasoning despite the system’s widespread acceptance. The results show that ...

In this article the author reviews research evidence on the prevalence of mental disorders in lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals (LGBs) and shows, using meta-analyses, that LGBs have a higher prevalence of mental disorders than heterosexuals. The author offers a conceptual framework for understanding this excess in prevalence of disorder in terms of minority stress--explaining that stigma, prejud...

The Taoist culture is a precious cultural heritage of the Chinese nation, but in today's era weak life, how to guide citizens understand culture, true meaning "your birth, born again", idea respect for love life by heart, externalized line, improve quality citizens, strengthen social stability particularly important. Taoism's "being indifferent fame and wealth" also good medicine society, which...