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This broad scope is chosen given ongoing debates about the construct validity of current psychiatric nosology, 19 21 the relationship between ODD and CD disorder constructs (ie, separate, overlapping or differing in degree), 2 and the relative dearth of studies establishing the validity of child behaviour disorder constructs outside of North America and Western Europe.

3 There is also significant overlap between the disorder constructs and aggressive and delinquent behaviours more generally, 18 and studies tend to focus on disorders versus behavioural patterns depending on academic discipline (eg, psychiatry, psychology, education, sociology, criminology).

It has been proposed that the broad major depressive disorder (MDD) construct is heterogenous.

To quantitatively characterize the complex relationships between cardiovascular drugs, targets, disease genes and disorders, we construct a series of networked relationships including cardiovascular drug-target, gene-disease, drug-disease, and protein-protein interaction networks by integrating publicly available drug data (See Figure  1 for an overview of the analysis process).

As we do not have a specific questionnaire to assess GPs' knowledge in the diagnosis and management of anxiety disorders, we constructed a vignette-based instrument.

To strengthen research and differential diagnostics of mitochondrial disorders, we constructed and validated an oligonucleotide microarray (h-MitoArray) allowing expression analysis of 1632 human genes involved in mitochondrial biology, cell cycle regulation, signal transduction and apoptosis.

However, an alternative model for diagnosing personality disorders where the construct "identity" has been integrated as a central diagnostic criterion for personality disorders has been placed in section III of the manual.

This study had two aims: to test the hypothesis that borderline personality disorder (BPD) patients hold numerous dysfunctional beliefs associated with a variety of Axis II disorders, and to construct a BPD belief scale which captures these beliefs.

The scores for depression and anxiety disorder were used to construct an index for internalizing disorder.

The psychiatric disorders modules used in this study were suicidality, major depressive disorder (excluding the suicidality items), alcohol use disorders, generalised anxiety disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder; ii) ' was constructed from variables of the Mental Adjustment to Cancer Scale (MAC) [ 17] whose items had been adapted to the local HIV situation.

The present analytic procedure goes beyond standard approaches to studying childhood anxiety disorders by evaluating the construct validity of these disorders at a model level, assessing discriminant and convergent validity with state of the art structural equation procedures that provide clear-cut methods for hypothesis testing.