OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a tornado disaster on the personal preparedness of local residents to determine (1) to what extent the tornado outbreak experience had altered preparedness awareness, willingness to act, and levels of personal preparedness of residents as measured by possession of a preparedness kit; and (2) what effect this experience had on the...

BACKGROUND Health apps are increasingly used with important implications for health. Hong Kong is one of the most technologically advanced and connected cities-smartphone ownership and Internet access rates are among the highest in the world. OBJECTIVE We investigated the prevalence of health app possession and related sociodemographic factors and health behaviors among smartphone or tablet o...

The cross-cultural validity of dissociative possession and trance disorders is a matter of some debate, limiting research and meaningful interpretation of prevalence data. Intimate to these concerns is the status of spirit possession categories studied in the social sciences, particularly anthropology. These two categories are phenomenologically related and display similar epidemiological assoc...

Bakhtegan–TashkLakes (BTL) and Kamjan Marsh, one of the Ramsar sites with an area 1323 km 2 , have been shrunk due to groundwater overexploitation, construction two new dams drought. Evaporation BTL water significantly increased potentially toxic metal (PTMs) average total dissolved solids (TDS) from 45000 382000 mg/l. This study focuses on contamination sources 16 PTMs. The sampling include 24...

Epistemic logic analyzes reasoning governing localized knowledge, and is thus fundamental to multiagent systems. Linear logic treats hypotheses as consumable resources, allowing us to model evolution of state. Combining principles from these two separate traditions into a single coherent logic allows us to represent localized consumable resources and their flow in a distributed system. The slog...

In Nepal, spirit possession is a common phenomenon occurring both in individuals and in groups. To identify the cultural contexts and psychosocial correlates of spirit possession, we conducted a mixed-method study in a village in central Nepal experiencing a cluster of spirit possession events. The study was carried out in three stages: (1) a pilot study consisting of informal interviews with p...

Possession by a spirit or demon or God is an age old phenomenon which is still being reported from many countries all over the world. Possession syndrome is defined as an episodic disruption of behavior dur ing which it is presumed tha t the subject 's personality has been replaced by that of a spirit or God (Wintrob, 1973 ; Wijesinghe et al., 1976). I ts manifestations, purpose and consequence...

It lias scarcely been a matter of doubt that the Evangelists have recorded several cases of insanity. The best defined are those of the demoniac of Gadara, evidently an example of mania; and the bov brought to our Lord after the transfiguration, whose symptoms closely resemble those of epilepsy. These cases will not fail to bring to the minds of those conversant with the wards of a lunatic asyl...

OBJECTIVE This study describes the types of assistive devices in the possession of persons with multiple sclerosis (MS) and identifies factors that best predicted the probability of possessing these devices. METHOD A secondary analysis using frequency distributions and logistic regression of existing cross-sectional data was completed. Data were from an anonymous mail survey of members of the...