The Impact of Myles on USC’s Future Myles' addition gives USC a bright future at the receiver position, and he is expected to thrive in Lincoln Riley's quarterback-friendly system. His speed and playmaking ability make him a perfect fit for USC's fast-paced offense, which has relied on big plays and vertical routes. The Trojans’ ability to continually land top-tier recruits like Myles shows that they are well-positioned for sustained success in the Pac-12 and on the national...

Trojans Land Another Elite Prospect USC football continues its impressive recruiting run under head coach Lincoln Riley, adding four-star wide receiver Jerome Myles to an already stacked recruiting class. Myles, a dynamic playmaker with elite speed and agility, chose USC over offers from several other top programs, including Alabama and Ohio State. His decision bolsters USC’s future offensive firepower, making them one of the most feared teams on the recruiting trail. John Saunders Jr...

The economy of Cyprus is a high-income economy as classified by the World Bank,[3] and was included by the International Monetary Fund in its list of advanced economies in 2001.[1][2] Cyprus adopted the euro as its official currency on 1 January 2008, replacing the Cypriot pound at an irrevocable fixed exchange rate of CYP 0.585274 per €1.[30] The 2012–2013 Cypriot financial crisis, part...

Thousands of years ago, before the existence of Egyptian civilization, the regions of North Africa that surround the Nile River were fertile grasslands and woodlands, providing farmland and grazing land for communities of people. Historians estimate that around 3500 b.c.e., however, the environment in these grasslands began to change dramatically, perhaps because of overgrazing of the land, and eventually the region turned into desert, primarily the Sahara. Looking for a place where they...

Agriculture arose independently in many locations throughoutthe world, and each time it was the result of people’s manipulating plants and animals that already lived around them. InAfrica this process happened numerous times in diff erent locations. Africa’s geography prevented the smooth transmissionof crops and livestock from place to place. As a result, peopleon the continent never had the chance to develop large agricultural civilizations such as those in Mesopotamia.Egypt was...

IntroductionThe term paranoid can be applied to symptoms, syndromes, or personality types. Paranoid symptoms are overvalued ideas or delusions that are most commonly persecutory, but not always so (see Box 1.4, page 12). Paranoid syndromes are those in which paranoid delusions form a prominent part of a characteristic constellation of symptoms, such as pathological jealousy or erotomania. In paranoid personality disorder, there is excessive self-reference and undue sensitiveness to real or...

IntroductionOf all the major psychiatric syndromes, schizophrenia is perhaps the most difficult to define and describe. This partly reflects the fact that, over the past century or more, widely divergent concepts have been held in different countries and by different people. Although there is now a greater consensus, substantialuncertainties remain. Indeed, schizophrenia remains the best example of the fundamental issues with which psychiatry continues to grapple—concepts of disease,...

  Introduction In the previous chapter we considered depressive disorders and we now turn to bipolar disorders, another group of conditions in which depressive episodes are prominent. In bipolar disorder, however, the course is marked by at least one episode of mania or hypomania. Kraepelin (1921) brought mania and depression together as manic depressive psychosis, because he believed that the longerterm clinical course, with its tendency to recurrence of mood disturbance, was similar,...

There is no general agreement about the best method of classifying depressive disorders. A number of approaches have been tried, based on the following:● presumed aetiology● symptomatic picture● course.Classification by presumed aetiologyHistorically, depressive disorders were sometimes classified into two kinds—those in which the symptoms were caused by factors within the individual, and were independent of outside factors (endogenous depression), and those in which the symptoms were a...

  Introduction The next two chapters describe depressive disorders and bipolar disorder. These conditions are also called mood disorders because one of their main features is abnormality of mood. Nowadays the term is usually restricted to disorders in which this mood is depression or elation, but in the past some authors have included states of anxiety as well. In this book, anxiety disorders are described in Chapter 8. Mood disorders have in the past been referred to as...

In everyday speech the word ‘illness’ is used loosely. Similarly, in psychiatric practice the term ‘mental illness’ is used with little precision, and often synonymously with ‘mental disorder’. In this context, the terms ‘mental’ and ‘psychiatric’ are also used interchangeably. A good definition of mental illness is difficult to achieve, for both practical and philosophical reasons, as outlined here. In routine clinical work the...

Reciprocal determinism is a key concept in psychology, particularly in social cognitive theory, proposed by Albert Bandura, a renowned psychologist known for his work on social learning and self-efficacy. This theory suggests that behavior, personal factors, and environmental influences interact and influence each other bidirectionally. In other words, individuals are not merely influenced by external factors, but they also play an active role in shaping their environment and determining...