Mental well-being is fundamental to good quality of life. Happy and confi dent children are most likely to grow into happy and confi dent adults, who in turn contribute to the health and well-being of nations (1). Emotional health and well-being in young people have implications for self-esteem, behaviour, attendance at school, educational achievement, social cohesion and future health and life...

Of a similar mind was Dr. Emmett Dent, for many years Superintendent of the Manhattan State Hospital. After segregating a number of patients for a time and recording the effects of especially selected music upon them, Dr. Dent became an enthusiastic user of music as a means of alleviating some of the symptoms of the unsound mind. He said : "Music is responsible for cures among the insane, and i...

It is interesting to note the way in which medical knowledge has developed over the years with regard to diseases superficially akin to classical rickets. The first stage followed as a result of the disappearance, owing to the improved knowledge of nutrition, of classical rickets as a common source of bony deformity. This led to the clearer recognition of the remaining 'resistant' forms of rick...

A multi-period market model is developed to examine the evolution of risk averse agents' con dence degrees in learning their abilities to obtain precise information and the properties of resulting market trading patterns in price volatility, trading volume, and expected pro ts. Agents initially do not know their abilities which are related to the qualities of private signals. They assess abilit...

1PD Dr. med. dent., Head of Periodontology, Clinic of Preventive Dentistry, Periodontology and Cariology, Center of Dental Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. 2Dr. med. dent., Research Assistant, Clinic of Preventive Dentistry, Periodontology and Cariology, Center of Dental Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. 3Prof. Dr. med. dent., Chairman, Clinic of Preventiv...

A 17-year-old patient with no specific pathological history who consulted for epistaxis with low abundance repetitions by the left nasal fossa associated with a homolateral stuffy nose sensation and episodes of fetid rinorrhea, since 7 months. The clinical examination reveal a patient in good shape . Examination of the nasal cavities found some blood clots in the left nasal cavity , the suction...

Dent-2 disease is an X-linked renal tubulopathy associated with mutations in OCRL gene. It is characterized by low-molecular weight proteinuria, hypercalciuria, nephrolithiasis/nephrocalcinosis and progressive renal failure. Patients may have some extra-renal symptoms of Lowe syndrome, such as peripheral cataracts, mental impairment, stunted growth or elevation of creatine kinase/lactate dehydr...

According to the report of the United States transportation department, mechanical damage is one of the most important reasons for the pipeline accident .The most typical form of mechanical damage is indentation. Dent defect is one of the important factors affecting pipeline fatigue life, and it will greatly reduce the fatigue life of the pipeline in service. Meanwhile the dent displacement wil...