A high prevalence of childhood abuse has been reported in patients with severe mental illness. We conducted a cross-sectional study of 102 patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or schizoaffective disorder. Social, demographic, and clinical data were obtained. Patients were evaluated using Brief Psychotic Relative Scale, and Traumatic Life Events and Distressing Event questionnaires. Almost half (47.5%) of these patients had suffered some kind of child abuse, and our results confirmed a relationship between a history of childhood abuse and more severe psychosis. Diagnosis of schizophrenia was determined 4.1 years earlier in victims of childhood abuse. Hospital admissions were twice as high in victims of psychological abuse. Patients with a history of sexual abuse were more than twice as likely to attempt suicide (68% vs. 28.9%).

Avrami's model describes the kinetics of phase transformation under the assumption of spatially random nucleation. In this paper we provide a quasi-exact analytical solution

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In the context of CSD-MOD growth of coated conductors for low cost and scalable production of YBCO coated conductors, new solutions are proposed in accordance with the new requirements concerning environmental safety and product performance. Looking at these objectives we will present here our work in the preparation of metallorganic precursor solutions with reduced fluorine content, which fulfill the requirements of superconducting YBCO epitaxial layers, leading to high superconducting performance. Solutions with low fluorine precursors with different solvents and amounts of additives have been stabilized and their rheology modified for substrate wettability. Thermal decomposition analysis and infrared spectroscopy performed directly in films, have revealed the different decomposition steps and NMR analysis could unveil the chemical reactions taking place in the solution. Upon optimization of the growth process parameters, T c and J c (77K) of 90 K and 3-4 MA/cm 2 are obtained.

Why does not gravity make drops slip down the inclined surfaces, e.g., plant leaves? The current explanation is based on the existence of surface inhomogeneities, which cause a sustaining force that pins the contact line. Following this theory, the drop remains in equilibrium until a critical value of the sustaining force is reached. We propose an alternative analysis, from the point of view of energy balance, for the particular case in which the drop leaves a liquid film behind. The critical angle of the inclined surface at which the drop slips down is predicted. This result does not depend explicitly on surface inhomogeneities, but only on the drop size and surface tensions. There is good agreement with experiments for contact angles below 90°where the formation of the film is expected, whereas for greater contact angles great discrepancies arise.