Psychoanalytic theories and clinical case studies of patients with narcissistic character pathology were most infl uential in outlining the conceptualization and description of the narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) when it was fi rst included as a diagnostic category in the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders, third edition, (DSM-III) in 1980. This was eloquently summarize...

(72) Inventors: BEKIR SAMI YILBAS, DHAHRAN (57) ABSTRACT (SA); SOHAIL AKHTAR, DHAHRAN (SA); CIHAN KARATAS’ ANKARA The laser nitriding method of making phosphor bronze with (TR); CHRIS CHATWIN’ BRIGHTON surface-embedded titanium carbide particles involves coating (GB) a cleaned phosphor bronze workpiece with a thin ?lm formed (73) Assignee: KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF of a carbonaceous layer mixed w...

Shamima Akhtar SHARMIN, Mohammad Jahangir ALAM, Md. Mominul Islam SHEIKH, Rashed ZAMAN, Muhammad KHALEKUZZAMAN, Sanjoy Chandra MONDAL, Mohammad Anwarul HAQUE, Mohammad Firoz ALAM, Iftekhar ALAM* Division of Applied Life Sciences (BK21 Program), College of Agriculture and Life Science, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Republic of Korea Department of Bioscience (Integrated Bioscience Sectio...

A new species of gregarious endoparasitoid, Parapanteles echeriae Gupta, Pereira & Churi, sp. nov., bred from Abisara echeria Stoll (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae) on host plant Embelia sp. (Myrsinaceae), is described and illustrated from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Abisara echeria, commonly known as plum judy, is a small striking butterfly prevalent in Asia. This is the first ever record of a parasi...

Home-based primary care in Canada Decline of housecalls in Canada. In Canada, the delivery of primary care through home visits has been steadily declining.1 The 2010 National Physician Survey revealed that only 42.4% (decreased from 48.3% in 2007) of Canada’s general practitioners performed housecalls.2,3 Unfortunately, these surveys failed to capture the frequency with which responding physici...

Yan Z, Okutsu M, Akhtar YN, Lira VA. Regulation of exercise-induced fiber type transformation, mitochondrial biogenesis, and angiogenesis in skeletal muscle. J Appl Physiol 110: 264 –274, 2011. First published October 28, 2010; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.00993.2010.—Skeletal muscle exhibits superb plasticity in response to changes in functional demands. Chronic increases of skeletal muscle contra...

* James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, George Mason University, MSN 1D3, Carow Hall, Fairfax, VA 22030; [email protected]. Cowen is a professor of economics and the general director of the Mercatus Center and the Buchanan Center. He is the author of In Praise of Commercial Culture (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998), What Price Fame? (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000), ...

In my remarks this morning I would like to briefly talk about the significance of ‘risk management’ underlying this framework. I would then like to discuss the important contributions of this architecture, and finally conclude with the issues, challenges and implications pertaining to its implementation. I would also like to touch briefly on where the region and the world is in the adoption of ...

In this more integrated and dynamic environment, the retail banking frontier of the future is defined by the range of services that are accessible to the consumer. Increasingly, technology is no longer an inhibiting factor in the payment services offered by banks. Indeed, expedient fund transfers and account access flexibilities are now apparent elements that differentiate banks to the discerni...