Composite International Diagnostic

Given that cognitive and behavioral disturbances are commonly associated with inhalant use disorders, diagnostic assessment of individuals with such disorders is probably best done by using a standardized interview schedule, such as the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDl) (Robins et... 

Wacker HR, Miillejans R, Klein KH, Battegay R (1992) Identification of cases of anxiety disorders and affective disorders in the community according to ICD-10 and DSM-III-R by using the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI). Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 2 91-100... 

The kidneys have a key role in the maintenance of body homeostasis and effectively regulate whole-body biochemistry by the reactive elimination of a wide variety of unwanted organic and inorganic compounds in the urine, i.e. the constancy of the internal environment is maintained at the expense of varying urinary composition. This variation in composition is, therefore, a reflection of a large number of biochemical processes taking place both in the kidney and elsewhere in the body and, as such, NMR urinalysis is potentially of enormous diagnostic importance. 

Dr. Dmitry Beilin is head of the laboratory at the Polymate Ltd.-International Nanotechnology Research Center in Israel (http // www.polymateltd.com). His fields of interest include structural theory, thin-walled space structures, NDT diagnostics in industry and construction, and the strength of polymer composite materials. Dr. Beilin has authored more than 100 scientific articles and holds 5 patents. 

Wang CS, Chang FK. Built-in diagnostics for impact damage identification of composite structures. In 2nd International workshop on structural health montoring 1999. pp. 612-21. 

Chang FK. Built-in damage diagnostics for composite structures. In ICCM-10 10th international congress of composite materials, Canada 1995. pp. 283—9. 

Microhardness. The microhardness was measured on the mirror-smooth surface to be 400, 412, 450 and 445kg/mm for the PrS2, NdS2, SmSi.g and DySi.gs crystals, respectively. One can see that these values are independent of the composition within the experimental error of 10%. It appears that the microhardness value is determined mainly by the internal morphology of these aystals rather than their composition and, hence, may not be a diagnostic parameter for these quite imperfect flux-grown crystals. 

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