History of Mental Health Services Use in Self-Immolation Suicide Attempters Referred to Motahari Burn Center, Tehran, Iran

Background: Suicide is one of the serious challenges facing mankind today.Considering that in our country a study to evaluate the use of mental health services and suicide by self-immolation is not carried out, determining the history of mental health services use in self-immolation suicide attempters seems logical and useful.Methods: The study was

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A molluscan class struggle: exploring the surprisingly uneven distribution of chemosymbiosis among two major mollusk groups

Many bivalves and gastropods from marine reducing environments such as deep ocean hydrothermal vents and seeps Counter Height Stool host chemosynthetic bacteria in a nutritional symbiosis.Despite their functional similarities, the distribution of chemosymbiosis in these two mollusk classes is surprisingly uneven: the number of bivalve species known

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Public service reforms and clientelism: explaining variation of service delivery modes in Croatian social policy

This article seeks to explain the differences in outcomes of social services reform in Croatia during the previous two decades.While the service management reform was based on the principles of effectiveness, efficiency and participation in one segment of social services, in the other segment, reform was used for the development of partisan patrona

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