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🔗 OCRmyPDF

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OCRmyPDF adds an optical character recognition (OCR) text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched.

PDF is the best format for storing and exchanging scanned documents. Unfortunately, PDFs can be difficult to modify. OCRmyPDF makes it easy to apply image processing and OCR to existing PDFs.

🔗 Mental health policy and development in Egypt - integrating mental health into health sector reforms 2001-9

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!! Background

Following a situation appraisal in 2001, a six year mental health reform programme (Egymen) 2002-7 was initiated by an Egyptian-Finnish bilateral aid project at the request of a former Egyptian minister of health, and the work was incorporated directly into the Ministry of Health and Population from 2007 onwards. This paper describes the aims, methodology and implementation of the mental health reforms and mental health policy in Egypt 2002-2009.

!! Methods

A multi-faceted and comprehensive programme which combined situation appraisal to inform planning; establishment of a health sector system for coordination, supervision and training of each level (national, governorate, district and primary care); development workshops; production of toolkits, development of guidelines and standards; encouragement of intersectoral liaison at each level; integration of mental health into health management systems …

🔗 Access denied: Institutional barriers to justice for victims of torture in Egyp

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This research explores the question - how do practices in key justice institutions affect the incidence and success of prosecutions of torture perpetrators in Egypt? The research question is grounded in the theory that torture prosecutions are crucial to ending the practice of torture, and based on the judgment that the number of prosecutions of torture perpetrators in Egypt is very small compared to the widespread practice of torture. This research observes practices in three main justice institutions: the Department of Public Prosecutions, the Department of Forensic Medicine and the criminal courts. Based on international and local literature, but also on interviews conducted with lawyers, forensic doctors and human rights activists, the research observes the practices most common to the three institutions, while analyzing their impact on the incidence …

🔗 On International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, First Step to Combating Torture is Accountability

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Torture has claimed hundreds of lives while there remains virtual impunity for perpetrators, who either evade accountability entirely or are penalized in a manner disproportionate to the severity of the crime. Meanwhile, state security has expanded its use of enforced disappearance and torture at National Security headquarters, including by electrocution and sexual abuse, with the aim of coercing confessions or causing humiliation.

🔗 International Migration of Doctors, and Its Impact on Availability of Psychiatrists in Low and Middle Income Countries

!!!Background

Migration of health professionals from low and middle income countries to rich countries is a large scale and long-standing phenomenon, which is detrimental to the health systems in the donor countries. We sought to explore the extent of psychiatric migration.

!!!Methods

In our study, we use the respective professional databases in each country to establish the numbers of psychiatrists currently registered in the UK, US, New Zealand, and Australia who originate from other countries. We also estimate the impact of this migration on the psychiatrist population ratios in the donor countries.

!!!Findings

We document large numbers of psychiatrists currently registered in the UK, US, New Zealand and Australia originating from India (4687 psychiatrists), Pakistan (1158), Bangladesh (149) , Nigeria (384) , Egypt (484), Sri Lanka (142), Philippines (1593). For …

🔗 Torture in Egypt

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Author: Basma M Abdel Aziz

This article is concerned with the increasing prevalence of torture in Egypt. Torture is a widespread problem in Egypt, being practiced in the majority of police stations and state security places. It has become a routine practice and is seen daily on a systematic basis. The number of people who are subjected every month to torture is unimaginable. In addition, there are deaths that occur as a result of the torture. However, the Egyptian government does not give clear answers about the issue. Everyone could be exposed to torture, and for different, illogical reasons. The case of Bany Mazar is a horribly clarifying one. The unclear political situation and the absence of democracy play the main role in the highly increasing rate of …

🔗 Mental Health in Egypt: Unmet Need, Priorities and Possible Solutions

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Author: Michael Elnemais Fawzy

Mental health services in Egypt are mainly provided by hospitals with insufficient attention given to integrating mental health into primary care. The majority of the available resources are allocated to a few large centralized psychiatric hospitals. The Institute of Medicine (2001) defines quality clinical care as care that is equitable, timely, safe, efficient, effective and patient-centered. This article describes a three-pronged strategic approach for enhancing mental health services through policies designed to improve quality and equity.

🔗 WHO - Health Profile 2015 - Egypt

This comprehensive health profile is intended to serve as a tool to monitor progress in the health of the population. WHO’s collaboration with its Member States will strengthen the national health information systems, and enable the generation of timely and reliable evidence to assess the health situation and trends, and the health system response. Most important, it will provide the information needed by health policy and decision-makers.

🔗 Quality of life and human rights conditions in a public psychiatric hospital in Cairo

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!!! Purpose

There is no documented evidence on service users’ perceptions of quality of care and observance of human rights in mental health residential facilities in Egypt after the new mental health law passed in 2009. The purpose of this paper is to investigate El-Abbassia Mental Health Hospital in Cairo. Special attention is paid as to the variety of human rights violations which are experienced by the users and the context in which these violations occur.

!!! Design/methodology/approach

A cross-sectional study was performed relying on 36 depth interviews with patients, 58 staff members and 15 family members, reviews of documents and observations by an independent assessment team consisting of the author, another psychiatrist, a nurse and a family member using the World Health Organization Quality Rights Tool …

🔗 Semantic Line Breaks

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When writing text with a compatible markup language, add a line break after each substantial unit of thought.

  1. Text written as plain text or a compatible markup language MAY use semantic line breaks.
  2. A semantic line break MUST NOT alter the final rendered output of the document.
  3. A semantic line break SHOULD NOT alter the intended meaning of the text.
  4. A semantic line break MUST occur after a sentence, as punctuated by a period (.), exclamation mark (!), or question mark (?).
  5. A semantic line break SHOULD occur after an independent clause as punctuated by a comma (,), semicolon (;), colon (:), or em dash (—).
  6. A semantic line break MAY occur after a dependent clause in order to clarify grammatical structure or satisfy line length constraints.
  7. A semantic line break is RECOMMENDED before an …

🔗 Enso - Write now, edit later.

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Ensō is a writing tool that helps you enter a state of flow.

It does this by separating writing from editing and thus making it harder for you to edit yourself.

As you write, the text fades away. It helps you focus on the now. Writing becomes similar to spoken language.

It is possible to add automatic text direction so it can support RTL languages by opening Firefox Inspect feature and adding dir="auto" in the main <textarea>

UPDATE: Developer responded to a DM on mastodon and added RTL support.

🔗 Text Cleaner

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Text Cleaner: Text cleaner is an all-in-one text cleaning and text formatting online tool that can perform many simple and complex text operations including format text, remove line breaks, strip HTML, Convert case, and find and replace text online.

🔗 Post-traumatic stress disorder: clinical and translational neuroscience from cells to circuits

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In this Review, we describe the clinical features and current treatments for PTSD, examine the neurobiology of symptom domains, highlight genomic advances and discuss translational approaches to understanding mechanisms and identifying new treatments and interventions for this devastating syndrome.

🔗 Soma FM

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Over 30 unique channels of listener-supported, commercial-free, underground/alternative radio broadcasting to the world. All music hand-picked by SomaFM's award-winning DJs and music directors.

🔗 نقط وخطوط - مذكرات مرسومة

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رسوم علا أبوالشلاشل التي قدّمتها بالنصّ التالي:

في وقت ما في 2014 ،في وسط نوبة غضب حادة، لقيت معايا كراسة وماركر اسود. للتنفيس عن الغضب، بدأت أرسم نقط وخطوط جنب بعضها. بعدها بدأت أتخيل الغضب …

🔗 Professor Leonard - Statistics Video Lectures

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Topics: Data Analysis and Interpretation, Data Descriptors, Probability, Binomial and Normal Distributions, Confidence Intervals, and Hypothesis testing with One Sample.

🔗 CrumpLab Books

  • Instances of Cognition
  • Reproducible statistics for psychologists with R: Lab Tutorials
  • Using R for Reproducible Research: Student contributed tutorials
  • Answering Questions with Data: Introductory Statistics for Psychology Students
  • Answering Questions with Data: The Lab Manual
  • Answering Questions with Data: The Course Website
  • Research Methods for Psychology
  • Cognitive Technologies: From Theory and Data to Application
  • Open tools for writing open interactive textbooks (and more)
  • Programming for Psychologists: Data Creation and Analysis