INTRODUCTION This study examined the level of agreement between caregiver and Parkinson's disease (PD) patient reports of neuropsychiatric problems. METHOD Forty-three patients and 43 informants who knew the patient well (caregivers) participated in the study. Caregivers rated patients' behaviour, as well as their own stress, using the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI). Information from patien...

in critical analysis, different aspects of an issue will be analyzed from point of view of current discourse of society. the objective of this paper, is to critically analyze the economic goals of development plans (pre and post revaluation). in this respect, many papers and research report has been considered and the results show that critical discourse have paid attention to plans and its eco...

OBJECTIVE To review the nearly 30 papers suggesting that apathy may occur frequently in Parkinson's disease (PD) and that it may be a symptom or syndrome that is separate from depression. METHOD Literature review. RESULTS The review revealed three possible explanations for the high rates of apathy found in PD. First, there is much interest in an endogenous explanation of apathy because the ...

Recent research has established that schizophrenia patients have difficulties envisioning the future. Although mental simulations have a clear adaptive value, little is known about the function of simulating future episodes, particularly emotional events. The aim of this study was to explore the relationships between apathy and future projection in schizophrenia. Twenty-five schizophrenia patie...

â  process of development in developed countries shows that rural development is a basic requirement for national development and it should be considered at first priorities in development programs. rural population in kurdistan, live in an unstable environment and geographically, villages are extremely diverse and about 40.51 percent of population live in villages more than68 percent of popula...

The article analyses the interdependencies between the development level of the regions’ social sphere and the level of their competitive power. The author traces the correlation between the level of living (living standards) and the level of the territories’ competitive power by the example of international ratings and statistical data regarding the development of the Russian regions. The stud...

Responding to Ruth McDonald’s editorial on the rise of leadership and leadership development programmes in healthcare, this paper offers three arguments. Firstly, care is needed in evaluating impact of leadership development, since achievement of organisational goals is not necessarily an appropriate measure of good leadership. Secondly, the proliferation of styles of leadership might be unders...

Location-based services (LBS) rely on knowledge of a user’s location to provide tailored services or information by means of a wireless device. LBS applications have wideranging implications for society, particularly in the context of tracking and monitoring groups of individuals such as children, invalids, and parolees. Despite a great deal of attention paid to technical and commercial aspects...

We draw attention to a clear dichotomy between small-world networks exhibiting exponential neighborhood growth, and fractal-like networks, where neighborhoods grow according to a power law. This distinction is observed in a number of real-world networks, and is related to the degree correlations and geographical constraints. We conclude by pointing out that the status of human social networks i...