This study examines the pattern and trend of seasonal annual precipitation along with extreme events in a data scare, south Asian country, Afghanistan. Seven indices were considered based on intensity, duration, frequency events. The revealed that Afghanistan is unevenly distributed at yearly scales. Southern southwestern provinces remain significantly dry whereas, northern northeastern receive...

BACKGROUND It has repeatedly been shown that female patients wake up faster from propofol anaesthesia than male patients. The reason for this is not clear. It is possible that female patients have a more rapid decline in plasma propofol concentration after termination of an infusion, or there could be gender differences in the sensitivity to propofol, making women wake up at higher concentratio...

This paper studies the variability of deep-ocean mass transport using four 1000-yr integrations performed with coupled general circulation models. Statistics describing the spectral and spatial features are considered. It is shown that these features depend crucially on the time-mean state. For the transport of tropical and subtropical water masses in three of the integrations, the spectral lev...

Many previous studies have reported robust sex differences in olfactory perception. However, both men and women can be expected to vary in the degree to which they exhibit olfactory performance considered typical of their own or the opposite sex. Sex-atypicality is often described in terms of childhood gender nonconformity, which, however, is not a perfect correlate of non-heterosexual orientat...

The effects of gender differences and age on the treatment response to fluvoxamine were investigated in major depressive Japanese patients. A total of 100 Japanese patients participated in this study. The daily dose of fluvoxamine was fixed to 100, 150 or 200 mg in the fourth week. This fixed dose was maintained until the end of the 6-week study. The patients were divided into 3 groups: younger...

Prosocial voice, as a form of citizenship behavior with a purpose of expressing constructive changes and improving the status quo, is desirable in both teams and organizations. Also, transformational leadership (TL) has been documented as a leadership style that prompts employees to engage in prosocial voice. Recently, whether or not the effects of transformational leadership on prosocial voice...

Accurate descriptions of sex differences in the development of childhood conduct problems and adolescent delinquency will inform theories of their causes in fundamentally important ways. Using data on 4,572 offspring of a national sample of women, we tested descriptive hypotheses regarding sex differences. As predicted, the magnitude of sex differences varied with age, suggesting that multiple ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the interobserver reproducibility of the assessment of severity of complaints, grip strength, and pressure pain threshold in patients with lateral epicondylitis in primary care. DESIGN Two physiotherapists assessed independently, and in randomized order, the severity of complaints scored on an 11-point numeric rating scale, pain-free grip strength, maximum grip strength,...