background: research demonstrates that most of the menopausal symptoms and problems are the reflection of individual andsocial circumstances rather than the endocrine events of the menopause. as majority of women live 30 years or more through postmenopausal period, treatment and following up their problems during this period is among the main duties of a midwife. the aim of this study is to det...

BACKGROUND Individual differences may impact susceptibility to addiction. The impact of personality features on drug craving, however, has not been studied, particularly in women. METHODS Ninety-five treatment-seeking women with substance dependence, abstinent for at least 5 and no more than 21 days, were investigated regarding the correlation between personality factors and craving. Personal...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relation between the neurobehavior of very preterm infants and the level of NICU quality of developmental care. METHODS The neurobehavior of 178 very preterm infants (gestational age ≤29 weeks and/or birth weight ≤1500 g) from 25 NICUs participating in a large multicenter, longitudinal study (Neonatal Adequate Care for Quality of Life, NEO-ACQUA) was examined with a s...

This research attempts to measure personality by monitoring behaviour in a virtual environment. A computer game was created to measure a trait of the Five Factor Model of personality: extraversion. Test-items were created to measure extraversion and its facets, as specified by Costa and McCrae [7]. For this purpose, 25 items were built into the virtual environment. In order to test if these mea...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to describe the relationship between neo-aortic root size, neo-aortic insufficiency (AI), and reintervention at mid-term follow-up. BACKGROUND Data on neo-aortic valve function and growth after the Ross procedure in children are limited. METHODS A total of 74 of 119 Ross patients from January 1995 to December 2003 had > or =2 follow-up echocardiogram...

Neonatal rats which had received a daily injection of 50 microgram of 2,4-dinitrophenol (DNP) or 30 microgram of L-thyroxine (T 4) for 7 days beginning on the day of birth were compared as to the late effect of the hypothalamo-pituitary-thyroid axis with the neo saline control. Neo DNP rats and neo T 4 rats revealed the retardation of growth compared with neo saline rats. The plasma level of TS...

Paul Detrick The NEO PI-R is one of a group of closely-related objective assessment instruments (NEO Inventories) designed to measure the Five-Factor Model (FFM) of personality (Digman, 1990; McCrae & John, 1992). The FFM has received widespread acceptance as a valid descriptor of normal personality (Mount & Barrick, 1998), as well as an organizing framework for the prediction of job performanc...