SLEEP DISRUPTIONS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 471-471
Author(s):  
Robert J. Haggerty

Questionnaires about infant sleep patterns were sent by mail to a random sample of 1,158 families with 1 to 2 year olds. Returned questionnaires (67%) indicated that 20% of the children woke five or more times a week. Characteristics of 55 children with severe waking problems and their families were compared with 30 nonwaking control children. The wakers more commonly had other behavior and temperamental difficulties, irritability in the early months, and an adverse perinatal history. Their families had more stress and their mothers were more likely to have psychiatric symptoms. The role of various factors in the genesis and maintenance of sleep disruptions is discussed.

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-456
Author(s):  
James R Rogers ◽  
Hollis Mills ◽  
Lisa V Grossman ◽  
Andrew Goldstein ◽  
Chunhua Weng

Abstract Scientific commentaries are expected to play an important role in evidence appraisal, but it is unknown whether this expectation has been fulfilled. This study aims to better understand the role of scientific commentary in evidence appraisal. We queried PubMed for all clinical research articles with accompanying comments and extracted corresponding metadata. Five percent of clinical research studies (N = 130 629) received postpublication comments (N = 171 556), resulting in 178 882 comment–article pairings, with 90% published in the same journal. We obtained 5197 full-text comments for topic modeling and exploratory sentiment analysis. Topics were generally disease specific with only a few topics relevant to the appraisal of studies, which were highly prevalent in letters. Of a random sample of 518 full-text comments, 67% had a supportive tone. Based on our results, published commentary, with the exception of letters, most often highlight or endorse previous publications rather than serve as a prominent mechanism for critical appraisal.


2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Asaad Mohammed Ali Wahhab

The study aims to identify the responsibility of the external auditor in examining and evaluating the dimensions of sustainability information from the perspective of the auditors who are working in Iraqi companies and auditing offices. To achieve this goal, a questionnaire was created and distributed to a random sample of the study population consisting of auditors working in Iraqi companies and auditing offices. 83 questionnaires were retrieved, and all were valid for statistical analysis, which indicates100% of the sample study. The results of the study show that there is awareness among the external auditors in Iraq about their responsibility to examine and evaluate information related to dimensions of economic, environmental and social and the governance rules for sustainability and their application of the standards on the global reporting initiative (GRI). Besides, the presence of high trend among the auditors causing them to be accountable to the society who are the stakeholders, causing problems that can hinder the performance of the auditors in fulfilling their professional responsibility. This study will highlight several pieces of evidence from the works of literature as references of information to the external auditor and the corporate sustainability in Iraq to the future empirical and theoretical researcher.


2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurhapsa Nurhapsa ◽  
Arham Arham ◽  
Sitti Nurani Sirajuddin

<p>This study aimed to analyze the risk behavior of onion farmers in District Enrekang. A random sample of 75 onion farmers was selected for interviews. The model used to analyze the behavior of risk is a model developed by Kumbhakar (2002). The analysis showed that the average behavior of onion farmers are risk averse to the use of various inputs. In order for farmers to take risks and enhance productivity, strengthening institutions such as farmers' groups or unions as well as enhancing the role of the agricultural extension will be required.</p>


Author(s):  
Laila Ahmed lahik Habiri

The research aimed to reveal the reality of school discipline in teachers and students in Mahayel Asir province in Saudi Arabia. And the researcher followed the descriptive analytical method in his study, as he used the questionnaire and interview as a tool of the research, and it was distributed to a random sample made up of workers in the educational corps by the processing of data coordinate of (SPSS) system. The research revealed a several causes of the weakness of school punctuality such as the role of economic and social levels, and after viewing the results, the researcher recommended a number of suggestions and proposals to handle the weakness of discipline of the teacher or student with a modern innovative methods in the province of Mahayel Asir in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.  


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wafa Abdelghaffar ◽  
Oussama Sidhom ◽  
Lilia Laadhar ◽  
Rym Rafrafi

The involvement of immunity in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia and related psychoses was suspected a century ago but was shadowed by the dopaminergic hypothesis after the discovery of antipsychotics. We currently know that this latter theory has many limits and cannot account for the wide variety of psychotic conditions. The immune-inflammatory theory is now one of the most promising axes of research in terms of pathogenesis of several mental health conditions. Immunity and inflammation play a role at least in a subgroup of patients with psychosis. The immune system is complex with a variety of components and mediators that can all have effects on the brain and thus mediate psychiatric symptoms. In this chapter we will explore the scientific evidence of the role of immune system in pathophysiology of psychosis. The sections of this chapter will discuss the role of innate system components (cytokines, microglia, inflammation.), the role of adaptive system (lymphocytes and antibodies) with a section focusing on auto-immunity and particularly antineuronal antibodies. Finally we will discuss how this research can impact patients management and elaborate recommendations for future research.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-80
Author(s):  
Noor Alaqra

The study aims at finding the results of applying the criteria of governance on the development of human resources in the big local organizations in Qalqilya. It also attempts to find the importance, criteria and indications of governance and requirements to measure their effects on human resources development. The researcher used the analytical descriptive method to achieve the aims using a questionnaire designed for the purpose. It was distributed to a random sample of 20% of local organizations’ workers in Qalqilya, Azzoun, Hablah, Kufr-Thulth and Jayyous. The results of the study assured the positive effective role of applying the governance on the human resources development in the local organizations in Qalqilya without being affected by the variables of gender, organization’s location, nature of position, qualifications and experience. The researcher recommended the necessity of adopting the concept of governance by the local organizations and applying its principles and criteria there, in addition to consolidating the tasks of censorship by following, practising and implementing the criteria of governance in the big local organizations.


2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (7) ◽  
pp. 767-791 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Colleen Feely Hutson ◽  
Julie Christine Krueger

This study investigates the role of physical mobility in street harassment by analyzing a stratified random sample of 334 cases posted to Hollaback!, an online community documenting experiences of street harassment. Findings suggest that harassers utilize means of transportation as weapons to inflict or threaten physical harm, to escape or preserve anonymity, and to pursue targets and as a hunting ground for potential targets. By identifying the mechanisms of street harassment, we theorize how harassers negotiate mobility—particular types of mobility, especially that which is enabled by public transportation and owner vehicles—to gain advantage over targets of harassment.


Author(s):  
Hüsniye Yucel ◽  
Burak Acikel ◽  
F Nur Öz ◽  
Saliha Senel

AbstractAlthough presumed to be relatively harmless in immunocompetent patients, toxoplasmosis has been linked to several psychiatric problems such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and suicidal/aggressive behaviors. We describe an 11-year-old young adolescent girl with psychoses who was ultimately diagnosed with toxoplasmosis. It is an unusual presentation of Toxoplasma gondii infection that adds new knowledge to the current level of literature about the substantial role of Toxoplasma gondii in the etiology of neuropsychiatric diseases. We propose that screening for toxoplasmosis is needed besides other etiologies in differential diagnosis of psychiatric symptoms particularly in endemic areas.


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