Two questionnaire studies examined the applicability in Ireland of the Sexual Attitudes Questionnaire (S.A.Q.)developed with U.S. samples by Hendrick and Hendrick (1987). The questionnaire contains 43 items measuring ...

Background Relatively little information is available regarding the use of psychiatric services by individuals with intellectual disability (ID) in Arab countries. The current study aimed to identify (1) the reasons for ...

There is relatively little research on the relationships between adults with intellectual disability and their siblings, despite the potential importance of these relationships for either individual's psychological well-being ...

Staff attributions for challenging behaviour are purported to relate to staff responses to such behaviour. To elucidate this relationship, much recent work has relied on eliciting staff attributions to written descriptions ...

Thirty-six mothers of children aged between 5 and 8 years with intellectual disabilities completed five self-report questionnaires measuring variables related to behavioural and emotional difficulties, levels of care demand, ...

Background  Person Focused Training is introduced as a model of service delivery for people with severe challenging behaviours. It is defined as training and supporting staff to conduct functional assessments and to design ...

The MacLane's class 𝒜 of analytic functions is the class of nonconstant analytic functions in the unit disk that have asymptotic values at a dense subset of the unit circle. In this paper, we define a subclass ℛ of 𝒜 ...

The possible bacterial contamination of the door handles of public “service” cars working within the city of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, was investigated. Door handles from 22 cars were sampled and cultured on multiple ...

Pyocyanin, the growth pigment produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, thought at one time to be a metabolic byproduct, was found to be important for the wellbeing of the organism and one of the important chemicals that allow ...

2,3-Diarylglutaramides (4) have been prepared by a one-pot reaction involving hydrolysis of the corresponding diastereomeric (R, R)-glutaronitriles (3) with conc. sulphuric acid at room temperature. Their structure has ...